Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

[ad_1] There’s more to “once upon a time” than meets the eye… A version of this story appeared in TEXT.   follow the story exactly, follow on, look behind, before, tell the other side or reveal that everyone was mistaken, or that events are true but the meaning forgotten, or that the events … Read more

The Stories We Retell in “Bliss Montage” – Chicago Review of Books

The Stories We Retell in “Bliss Montage” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The eight stories in Ling Ma’s collection Bliss Montage are linked, not only because their protagonists tend to be Chinese-American women on the brink of autonomy, or because they drift in the same sea of anomie and escapist fantasy. Rather, on a deeper level, these stories are bound by a subconscious connective tissue. Characters … Read more