xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths (New Fairy Tales #2)
Kate Bernheimer, Laura van den Berg, Ron Currie Jr., Anthony Marra, Dawn Raffel, Maile Meloy, Willy Vlautin, Gina Ochsner, Madeline Miller, Manuel Muñoz, Benjamin Percy, Edith Pearlman, Joy Williams, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, Victor LaValle, Ben Loory, Elizabeth McCracken, Aurelie Sheehan, Max Gladstone, Sheila Heti, Kelly Braffet, Owen King, Sabina Murray, Zachary Mason, Michael Jeffrey Lee, Davis Schneiderman, Imad Rahman, Heidi Julavits, Karen Tei Yamashita, Peter Straub, Emma Straub, Kevin Wilson, Laird Hunt, Edward Carey, Manuela Draeger, Aamer Hussein, Kathryn Davis, Lutz Bassmann, Kit Reed, Ander Monson, Donaji Olmedo, Sigrid Nunez, Johanna Skibsrud, Brian W. Aldiss, Maile Chapman, Sarah Blackman, David B., Elanor Dymott, Shane Jones, Aimee Bender, Elizabeth Evans
3.50 · 10 ratings · Published: 24 Sep 2013
Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse—his cremains in a bullet. Here, in beguiling guise, are your favorite mythological figures alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, and other traditions.
Aimee Bender retells the myth of the Titans.
Madeline Miller retells the myth of Galatea.
Kevin Wilson retells the myth of Phaeton, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Emma Straub and Peter Straub retell the myth of Persephone.
Heidi Julavits retells the myth of Orpheus and Euridice.
Ron Currie, Jr. retells the myth of Dedalus.
Maile Meloy retells the myth of Demeter.
Zachary Mason retells the myth of Narcissus.
Joy Williams retells the myth of Argos, Odysseus’ dog.
If “xo” signals a goodbye, then xo Orpheus is a goodbye to an old way of mythmaking. Featuring talkative goats, a cat lady, a bird woman, a beer-drinking ogre, a squid who falls in love with the sun, and a girl who gives birth to cubs, here are extravagantly imagined, bracingly contemporary stories, heralding a new beginning for one of the world’s oldest literary traditions.
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