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Daniel A. Rabuzzi’s The Choir Boats
Daniel A. Rabuzzi, who first graced our pages in September 2008 with Four and Twenty and again in March 2009 with Before St. George Came, saw the release of his fantasy novel The Choir Boats in 2009. Published by ChiZine Publications, The Choir Boats was selected by January Magazine as a Top Ten Young Adult Novel for 2009.
For just a few more days, The Choir Boats is available as a free download from Wowio, where it was selected as their July Book of the Month. [continue reading...]
Demeter's Spicebox
Demeter's Spicebox is a new project for Cabinet des Fées and something of a storytelling adventure! We will invite storytellers from different cultures to revisit specific fairytale types. This will be a hypertextual project; while each piece of storytelling, be it via fiction or poetry will stand alone, writers will be encouraged to find ways to connect each independent storytelling fragment with the one before. The result will be a storytelling patchwork which will invoke the feeling of a fairytale potluck, where different cooks with different spices will create variations of very old recipes. The Spicebox's aim is to explore lesser-known fairytale types with strong heroines and protagonists who know that the truth behind the feminine is that of collaboration, as well as the complexities underlying characters who are neither perfect, nor altogether good. We will accompany each run of these tales with an article introducing the fairytale type as well as the surrounding themes. Readers and writers are invited to keep checking back, for more will be coming soon!
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Terri Windling is having a big art sale!
Terri Windling is currently having a half-price sale to help offset the medical costs of a family member in distress. Please read her post about the sale, and then visit Terri’s Etsy shop where you’ll find the painting displayed here as well some other incredible work on offer.
And we have three good things to announce today. The first thing we have to share is the long-awaited release of our third issue in print. This is the last issue of the first volume, published by Prime Books. With cover art by Charles Vess and twelve short stories by some of today’s finest authors in the fantasy genre, we’re sure there will be something about this issue to delight you. Please visit Cabinet des Fées 3 for more information and to order a copy for yourself.
The second announcement we have to make is that this will not be our final issue in print.
Final Sound and Spirit broadcast
Ellen Kushner has written about the final broadcast of Sound & Spirit in her Livejournal and has agreed to let us share her words with you. For those of you unfamiliar with this radio broadcast, Ellen gives a little history and assures us that the shows will remain online. Ellen writes: One of my life’s dreams
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Our third issue in Print
Cabinet des Fées: A Fairy Tale Journal Volume 1, Issue 3 Edited by Helen Pilinovsky & Erzebet YellowBoy Prime Books, 2010 116 pages Table of Contents Just Like Your Grandfather by Bret Fetzer Blackberries by Helen Ogden The Woman of Ebonstone Hill by Marcie Tentchoff Crossroads by Kim Kofmel Bricks by Rebecca W. Day The Underground
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Folkpunk 101
A Reading List by Tanya B. Avakian In the spirit of a college syllabus, I am offering a reading list of what I consider to be basic materials pertaining to the modern world’s creative struggle with its folkloric heritage. An acquaintance with these works will not only provide a real grounding in the topic, but a quick and sometimes dirty guide
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The Heroic Journey in Shirley Lim’s Princess Shawl
The Heroic Journey in Shirley Lim’s Princess Shawl by Nurul Huda This article will be discussing a work of an author that is no stranger to the Malaysian literary scene. Or, as a matter of fact, to the Singaporean, Hong Kong and American literary scene. Many Malaysian students know her from studying her poem “Monsoon History” in
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The Fairy Tale Tarot
The Fairy Tale Tarot by Lisa Hunt, Llewellyn, 2009. Reviewed by Erzebet YellowBoy The Fairy Tale Tarot by Lisa Hunt comes neatly packaged with the book Once Upon a Time in which Hunt briefly touches on the history of the fairy tale before expansively describing the major and minor arcana, each of which comes with a fairy
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Green Witch Green Witch by Alice Hoffman, 2010 Reviewed by Donna Quattrone Green Witch is the sequel to Green Angel, Hoffman’s spellbinding foray into the land of post-apocalyptic fairy tale. Both of these books detail a lyrical and deeply memorable exploration of love intertwined with loss, but either of the pair may be read on its own. Green Witch
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Brother and Sister by Lisa Stock (director), 2009 reviewed by Deborah J. Brannon Presently the children found a little brook dancing and glittering over the stones, and brother was eager to drink of it, but as it rushed past sister heard it murmuring: “Who drinks of me will be a tiger! Who drinks of me will be a tiger!“ So she
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Glass, Blood, and Ash by Catherynne M. Valente Here we come at last to the end of April, the month we all began as fools. Do we now end as hermits, the secluded wise? We may or may not; however, in our concluding installment in honor of National Poetry Month in the United States, we do have a modern urban anchorite to see us
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Orpheus by Amal El-Mohtar Two more days in April: two more poets to celebrate what is the close of National Poetry Month in the United States. Today, we welcome Amal El-Mohtar, no stranger to the digital pages of Cabinet des Fées — she has been published in Scheherezade’s Bequest, she writes book reviews for the site, and has been interviewed in
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Myth And Fairytales One thing into another and a picture of us. by Peter Hollinghurst Cabinet des Fées would like to introduce you to Peter Hollinghurst, a UK artist and digital alchemist whose latest series, Memory and Muchness, is inspired by Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, stories with which we are all familiar. To the left is
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Fairy Tale Women in 1990’s Film By Julie Sinn The 1990s in the United States witnessed a resurgence of the fairy tale in literary and film form as well as in feminist and cultural criticism. From 1993 to 2000, editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling published Snow White, Blood Red; Black Thorn, White Rose; Ruby Slippers,Golden Tears; Silver Birch, Blood Moon; and Black
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Raven by Claire Massey There was once a queen and she had a little daughter, who was as yet a babe in arms; and once the child was so restless that the mother could get no peace, do what she would; so she lost patience, and seeing a flight of ravens pass over the castle she opened the window and said to her
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Snow White at the Automat by Alex Dally MacFarlane Coins pushed in and the glass door opens with a click. Lunch, there, on a plate in the slot third from the left, seventh row up. The napkins are thin and rough like her bed sheets. This is very different to before. No mother smiling dangerously at her over tight laces and a comb. No fine-dressed husband offering
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