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Endorsers (potential): Donna Tartt, Peter Buck (of REM), Neil
Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Cunningham
Excerpts: 3rd Bed, 5_Trope, Born Magazine, A Galaxy Not So Far
Away, Filter, The Portland Mercury, The Press Gang, Radical
Society, Sou’Wester, Western Humanities Review, Tin House
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Kate Bernheimer is the author of two novels and the children’s book
The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum, a Publishers Weekly Best
Book of the Year. She is also the editor of the literary journal
Fairy Tale Review, and three anthologies, including My Mother She
Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (forthcoming
from Penguin in 2010). An Associate Professor and Writer in
Residence at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette each spring,
she spends the rest of the year in Tucson, Arizona.
An artist and fiction writer, Rikki Ducornet has illustrated books
by Robert Coover, Jorge Luis Borges, Forrest Gander, and Joanna
Howard. Her paintings have been exhibited widely, including, most
recently, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and the Salvador Allende Museum in Santiago, Chile.
"Hauntingly poetic . . . By turns lovely and tragic, Bernheimer's
spare but captivating fables of femininity resonate like a string
of sad but all-too-real and meaningful dreams. This is a collection
readers won't soon forget, one that redefines the fairy tale into
something wholly original."—Booklist
"[Bernheimer's] strangely moving stories, such as the eight
collected in Horse, Flower, Bird, combine fantasy with deep wisdom;
the illustrations by Rikki Ducornet are an added delight."—Reader's
Digest
"Deep-seated fears find their way into these eight brief, dark
adult fairy tales . . . These stories are the product of a vivid
imagination and crafty manipulation by their skillful
creator."—Publishers Weekly
“Imaginative . . . lean and lyrical writing . . . Bernheimer’s
passion for fairy tales is evident in every story she spins . . .
[her] work provides a refreshing contrast to most available
fiction. It is no stretch to compare her to Aimee Bender or Kelly
Link.”—Library Journal
“Quirky, twisted . . . quietly unhinged narratives by an author who
reinvents the fairy tale.”—Kirkus
“This is a delightful collection of strange tales. . . . The
stories are also accompanied by anthropomorphic illustrations by
Rikki Ducornet, which are wonderfully befitting of the tales. This
made for a quick read, as once I was pulled into the worlds of
these stories, I did not want to stop reading until I found out
where Bernheimer was taking me.”—NewPages
"[H]orse, Flower, Bird possesses everything you want to find in
remarkable, enchanting, and lasting fairy tales–the delightful,
imaginative kind of stories you want to tell in front of fires, or
on the phone late at night under the covers, the stories you know
you will never tell as well as the original author, the ones about
phobias and cages and learning to love cages, but you know you have
to try and retell them anyway."–Puerto Del Sol
"Hauntingly poetic . . . By turns lovely and tragic, Bernheimer's
spare but captivating fables of femininity resonate like a string
of sad but all-too-real and meaningful dreams. This is a collection
readers won't soon forget, one that redefines the fairy tale into
something wholly original."Booklist
"[Bernheimer's] strangely moving stories, such as the eight
collected in Horse, Flower, Bird, combine fantasy with deep wisdom;
the illustrations by Rikki Ducornet are an added delight."Reader's
Digest
"Deep-seated fears find their way into these eight brief, dark
adult fairy tales . . . These stories are the product of a vivid
imagination and crafty manipulation by their skillful
creator."Publishers Weekly
Imaginative . . . lean and lyrical writing . . . Bernheimer’s
passion for fairy tales is evident in every story she spins . . .
[her] work provides a refreshing contrast to most available
fiction. It is no stretch to compare her to Aimee Bender or Kelly
Link.”Library Journal
Quirky, twisted . . . quietly unhinged narratives by an author who
reinvents the fairy tale.”Kirkus
This is a delightful collection of strange tales. . . . The
stories are also accompanied by anthropomorphic illustrations by
Rikki Ducornet, which are wonderfully befitting of the tales. This
made for a quick read, as once I was pulled into the worlds of
these stories, I did not want to stop reading until I found out
where Bernheimer was taking me.”NewPages
"[H]orse, Flower, Bird possesses everything you want to find in
remarkable, enchanting, and lasting fairy talesthe delightful,
imaginative kind of stories you want to tell in front of fires, or
on the phone late at night under the covers, the stories you know
you will never tell as well as the original author, the ones about
phobias and cages and learning to love cages, but you know you have
to try and retell them anyway."Puerto Del Sol
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