On line now at New Fairy Tales magazine, you will find my poem “The princess and her pig” with a cute illustration and a picture of the real princess, Sophie with her pig. The magazine is chock full of gorgeous illustrations and wonderful stories and poems. Enjoy! (If you do enjoy it, please consider giving…
Category: folklore
Upcoming Reading
The lovely Robyn Ringler has asked me to read at her store, East Line Books, on October 18th. I’ll be there from about 1-4 pm and reading at 2pm. If all goes well, this will be the launch of Unikirja, the long awaited (by me anyway) collection of short stories based on Finnish folklore and…
Steal this Book
Well, I can’t afford it. From Fantagraphics, the latest from the wonderful Linda Medley: Castle Waiting: The “Hand Made” Special Edition. This ultra-deluxe, hand-assembled edition of the Castle Waiting graphic novel includes the following (click links for photos): • full-color archival chapter-divider bookplates printed on acid- and lignin-free 50 lb. stock with pigmented inks; the…
Reviewed: Folklore/Cinema
Daniel Peretti of Indiana University reviews the Folklore/Cinema collection for The Journal of Folklore Research and seems to like it. My essay gets a specific mention: Laity’s essay, which focuses on Ingmar Bergman’s film The Virgin Spring and Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left, reveals an interesting phenomenon. Laity demonstrates Bergman’s familiarity with…
Publication: JFR Review
I have another review on-line for the Journal of Folklore Research. This time it’s Marina Warner‘s Monsters of our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear (formerly No Go the Boogeyman). A sumptuous little book with a lot of fun and thoughtfulness.
Publication: Folklore/Cinema
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=magicwombat-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0874216737&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrHurrah! First off, there’s no department meeting today as it counts as a holiday (silly as that may be). Better yet, I just ran across the street to check my mailbox. Rather than the student papers I was expecting (hmmm, wonder where they are?) I found my latest publication, “The Virgin Victim: Reimagining a Medieval…
Strange Obsessions
Magpies have been much on my mind of late, partly due to seeing so many in England and Finland, but also because of something I’m writing right now. You can learn a lot about them at this terrific site, Raven’s Aviary, including traditional stories and myths about all the corvidae. They have had their effect…