FT Blog Alert: Cate R Fricke's "Something To Read For the Train"

Crown by Trina Schart Hyman

I found Cate's Twitter and blog while doing some quick research on Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Red Riding Hood Redux hitRECorderly project (posted on HERE a couple of days ago) and quickly realized Ms. Fricke is one of our own (ie. a fairy tale person), though the Trina Schart Hyman image (above) she uses for her Twitter account should have been a huge clue. ;)

Here's a quick sampling of recent blog posts by her:

• Dear "Can Fairy Tales Belong To Anyone?" (a response to someone searching Wordpress for an answer)
• Briefly, On Cinderella (and the sad lack of public interest in her broom)
• Many-Fur, Lost Among the Sculptures (a "green art" event where two of Cate's fairy tale based plays “A Girl and Her Nana Remember the Story of Many-Fur” and “Baba Yaga and the Five Stages of Hypothetical Grief” were performed as staged readings in a park)
• Baba Yaga, My Love (Cate shares her excitement - and mine, though she doesn't know it - over Catherynne M. Valente  confirmed as writing/releasing a companion book, Matroyshka, to her Russian folklore-based novel Deathless)

There are many more. Those a just a recent few and not all by any means, so check out Something To Read For the Train. You can subscribe so you don't miss any fairy tale goodness. And don't forget to follow Cate on Twitter for notices of fairy tale news happenings as well. :)