Our first two titles will be released in Spring 2008. Advance Reader Copies will be on display, and available to reviewers, at the 2008 AWP Convention in New York City at the Fairy Tale Review table. Please come take a look!
FICTION
The Changeling by Joy Williams.
This 3oth Anniversary Edition of The Changeling by Joy Williams will include a Foreword by Rick Moody. An overlooked and spectacular novel, The Changeling is a visionary fairy tale, a work of mythic genius. Terrifying, poetic, revelations follow The Changeling’s abandoned heroine Pearl everywhere she goes, whether by air, land, or sea.Joy Williams has won the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Harold and Mildred Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, among other prizes. Her first novel, State of Grace, was a National Book Award Finalist. “An inverse odyssey of a 20th-century feminine sensibility—our simpleton heroine ends a depraved alcoholic—the witty and horrifying Changeling establishes Williams as a major contemporary novelist.” (Virginia Quarterly Review, 1978). The 3oth Anniversary Edition seeks to reintroduce this novel to contemporary readers as one of the most original and alarming fairy-tale books ever written.
POETRY
Pilot (“Johann the Carousel Horse”) by Jöhannes Goransson.
Pilot ("Johann the Carousel Horse") is television shot through Artaud’s Momo-body. It is the fairy tale of Deleuze's Body without Organs. Hugo Ball restaged in Los Angeles. And, without end, Pilot is an assemblage, a book of nursery rhymes gone wrong in translation. Its strange characters, abandoned from other texts, include Lilja, the Pearls of Stockholm and assorted imperiled girls. Here, in Johannes Göransson's glittering exocity, they find a new and beautifully stitched home. Göransson was born and raised in Skåne, Sweden, but has lived in the US for many years. He is co-editor of Action Books and has translated the work of Aase Berg, Henry Parland, Ann Jäderlund and other Swedish and Finland Swedish poets.
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