Beauty and the Beast
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Happily Never After: A Conversation with A.A. Balaskovits
A.A. Balaskovits discusses her new story collection, STRANGE FOLK YOU’LL NEVER MEET.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: My Name Is Jean-Pierre and I Am Still an End Table
I am glad to be free of that tyrant, even if it means I am an end table waddling inch-by-inch down this path on a foolish mission that might prove impossible. I may be an end table, but at least…
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A Tale as Old as Time
Fairytales are some of the oldest stories we know, and as it turns out, they might be even older than we thought. The Guardian looks into the mysterious origins of stories like Rumplestiltskin and Beauty and the Beast.
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Elements of Beauty
For Tor.com, Mari Ness writes on the long history of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, starting with second century CE Roman writer Apuleius and through its later rebirths in the 18th and 19th centuries.