Kate Bernheimer
Kate Bernheimer
Kate Bernheimer is an American fairy-tale writer, scholar and editor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it seems, have superhuman powers.
Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
thinking people sensual
People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
mean ideas vignettes
I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
wings earth answers
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
reading play stories
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so Im very excited when I notice that.
reading secret underdog
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.
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From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.