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“Children long to be eaten. Everyone knows that.”

XO Orpheus: 50 New Myths by Kate Bernheimer (editor)

April 18, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Am I typing this up while wearing a tee featuring the cover of the d’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths? YOU KNOW IT! That strange tome of simplified myth and ultra-bright illustration cracked open a need in me when I was very young. I re-read that book countless times, and used it as the entry point into the larger world of mythology. Combined with a Catholic upbringing that was far more focused on the deaths of the saints than on anything else, you could saw I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: adaptation, aimee bender, anansi, aztec mythology, galatea, greek mythology, Kate Bernheimer (editor), Literature, madline miller, Maile Meloy, My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me, mythology, norse mythology, orpheus, Persian mythology, Religion, retelling, ron currie jr, sheila heti, sigrid nunez, The Iliad, Victor LaValle

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: adaptation, aimee bender, anansi, aztec mythology, galatea, greek mythology, Kate Bernheimer (editor), Literature, madline miller, Maile Meloy, My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me, mythology, norse mythology, orpheus, Persian mythology, Religion, retelling, ron currie jr, sheila heti, sigrid nunez, The Iliad, Victor LaValle ·
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