We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.
“The world is made of dirt. A rock doesn’t have feelings.” The flaccid man in the documentary glared out of the monitor at me accusingly, as if he suspected me of once being nice to…Continue Reading
As I was working on research for something else entirely, I stumbled upon a collection of Monguor folktales, collected from Qinghai in northwest China. This was a cultural tradition I wasn’t familiar with, and with…Continue Reading
If you like poetry and foxes and Jane Yolen, then you’ll love this. Over at her blog Myth & Moor, the ever-astonishing Terri Windling has just posted her review of Jane’s new poetry collection Sister…Continue Reading
Not long ago,the ever-astonishing Jane Yolen left a striking comment on my personal blog, and I feel that it deserves wider circulation. So here it is, with my own comment on her comment after, for your…Continue Reading
Despite the title, what concerns us is only a matter of engineering in the loosest sense. We are interested in how authors synthesize a primary work and a secondary τόπος. Thinking of this creative process…Continue Reading
"Fall down mountains, just don't fall on me" by Mark Witton. Reproduced under Creative Commons.
Part 2 of 2. Our second round of editorial drinks for Terri Windling’s latest moveable feast. Read Part 1 here. JP2: We’re kind of circling back to what Tolkien said—we don’t want dragons per se,…Continue Reading
'Storm Dragon' by Lisa Grabenstetter. Reproduced by kind permission.
Part 1 of 2 Our contribution to Terri Windling’s latest moveable feast is a potluck: a jumbling of literary reflections, theories, and disputations. After the topic was brought up, the editorial staff engaged in a…Continue Reading
