Kate Bernheimer and Lydia Millet: An Evening of Modern Fairy Tales
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Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2011 · Entertainment
http://chicagohumanities.org - See more Chicago Humanities Festival events. Vladimir Nabakov once said, "All great novels are great fairy tales." This literary master is not alone in recognizing the potency and literary pleasures of fairy tales. Kate Bernheimer and Lydia Millet are two of today's most talented writers and ardent supporters of this monstrous and magical tradition. Bernheimer is the author of Horse, Flower, Bird, a collection of contemporary fairy tales, editor of the anthology My Mother She Killed Me; My Father He Ate Me, and the founder and editor of The Fairy Tale Review. She is joined by Millet, a Pulitzer-Prize finalist for Love in Infant Monkeys and author of the forthcoming Ghost Lights and Magnificence. Together they offer a rare opportunity for adults: an evening of dark and delightful stories that celebrate this enduring literary form.
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