[HPforGrownups] Re: Interim reading suggestions

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 3366

Elizabeth Doherty wrote:

> Joywitch,
>
> I will, naturally, be kicking myself seconds after I send this message because
> I will have thought of roughly another two dozen suggestions for you, all of
> which will of course be better than the ones I have here.  Off the cuff,
> though, here are a few:

<snip>

> -Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's modern fairy tale anthologies
> -Any of Jack Zipes' fairy tale collections
> -The Armless Maiden, edited by Terri Windling (thematic collection of modern
> fairy tales dealing with child abuse...sometimes tough going but well worth
> it)

Terri Windling is one of the foremost fantasy editors in the field--she co-edits the Years Best
Fantasy and Horror anthology with Ellen Datlow.  Here's Terri's website:

http://www.endicott-studio.com/index.html

Here's her recommended fiction subpage (she has other people help her recommend; Charles DeLint is
one, I know):

http://www.endicott-studio.com/recmdats.html

Here's the reading list of mythopoeic works compiled on that website:

http://www.endicott-studio.com/bookstor.html

> -Tam Lin by Pamela Dean (it's got a number of holes in it, but it's worth
> reading just for the fact that it's such a celebration of literature and it's
> fun to pick out the allusions...What do they teach them at these schools?)

Pamela Dean is a near neighbor and dear friend.  I mentioned the Shakespeare reading group I was
in on the PoU list; they were hosted at Pamela's house.  It was a conversation I had with her that
led to the intertwining story structure I used in my last novel; I mention this conversation in
the author's afterward.

And I absolutely love _Tam Lin_  If you'll remember, I mentioned it a couple of days ago when we
were mentioning classics majors.  It's a book about the love of reading.  I strongly recommend it
to people on this list.

Also look at the Mythopoeic winners:

http://www.mythsoc.org/awardwinners.html


> I've been meaning to ask.  Does it seem to
> anyone else that there is a disproportionate number of teachers on the list?
> Or is it just that we teachers more often mention our occupation?

I was an English teacher for four years while working on my graduate degree.  Then the market fell
apart for English Ph.D.'s and I decided I didn't want to move out of state to pursue a tenure
track position, and anyway, I'd rather write a novel than a dissertation.

Peg

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