» kate bernheimer interview http://www.writefairytales.com/blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Read this interview http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/2009/10/read-this-interview/ http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/2009/10/read-this-interview/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:20:22 +0000 amyleighmorgan http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/?p=275 Kate Bernheimer is (a) the founder and editor of the Fairy Tale Review (a journal devoted to new fairy tales), and (b) a bang-up author. She’s just given a terrific intereview over here, and you’d be remiss not to read it.

A juicy excerpt:

…[M]eanness is a very important trope in many of the fairy tales that fascinate me. It’s true that while American popular culture has canonized female fairy-tale characters with hearts of gold, in fact the “main characters” of fairy tales are extremely varied: as many stupid, clumsy, boring, mean, ugly, plain, deficient, weird, pathetic, and sad characters as there are “good” ones. So actually, the “main characters” of many fairy tales are cruel.

Read the whole interview.

Brought to you by the lovely and talented Gypsy Thornton over at Fairy Tale News.

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