My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
I have a sense that a proliferation of magical stories, especially fairy tales, is correlated to a growing awareness of human separation from the wild and natural world. In fairy tales, the human and animal worlds are equal and mutually dependent. The violence, suffering, and beauty are shared. Those drawn to fairy tales, perhaps, wish for a world
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but to girls that pampered and young there’s no perceptible difference between an aging hippie and a transient.
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
“All great novels are great fairy tales,” wrote Nabokov. I would argue that all great narratives are great fairy tales . . . whatever their shape (novel, novella, short story, poem).
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
My Brother Gary Made a Movie and This Is What Happened
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
My love of fairy tales drives all of my writing, whether a novel, a short story, or a book for children. I have the honor of making my day-to-day work the celebration of fairy tales.
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
So as quickly as I had it, I gave up the idea of murdering him. You know: murder goes through your head sometimes, and then goes out again. It’s normal, in my opinion.
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
Fairy tales defy the status quo: a
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
Ours is a highly individualized culture, with a great faith in the work of art as a unique one-off, and the artist as an original, a godlike and inspired creator of unique one-offs. But fairy tales are not like that, nor are their makers. Who first invented meatballs? In what country? Is there a definitive recipe for potato soup? Think in terms of
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