Mar. 5th, 2009

talkstowolves: We love stories that subvert the expected. Icon inspired by In the Night Garden, Valente. (not that kind of story)
March 4th, 2009, sees a new edition of Cabinet des Fées online. I haven't had time to fully appreciate the new offerings up at Scheherezade's Bequest, but I can tell you that I've read [livejournal.com profile] shadesong's poem "Twelve" and it is marvelous. Bloodthirsty and marvelous!



My debut review with Cabinet des Fées is online with this update as well, a look into the intriguing fairy tales of Oscar Wilde:

Oscar Wilde is well known for his wit, his plays, his poetry, his scary aging portrait, and the trials regarding his homosexuality — famous perhaps for everything he's ever done except his fairy tales. Well, here's a tidbit for you: those fairy tales represented one of his first major works to see print in the form of The Happy Prince and Other Stories published in 1888. Jack Zipes even suggests, in his excellent afterword to the Signet Classic edition, that it was in the deceptively simple, evocatively rich, and satire-ready language of fairy tales that Wilde first began developing his unique voice. [Read the rest of the review at this link.]

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