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An investigation of the auto-curative impulse as it relates to deprivation and trauma in young subjects, or how Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helped me survive childhood / Steve Almond -- Clever Hans / Brian Baldi -- The boy who went forth / Christopher Barzak -- The little I know about fairy tales / Joshua Beckman -- Jack and the giant / Greg Bills -- Bohemian beasts and their buttery, buxom brides / Jirí Čech -- Kitsune / Alexander Chee -- Tale, myth, writer / Robert Coover -- Four poems / Neil Gaiman -- Mutilated animals: folktales and modern Swedish poetry / Johannes Göransson -- The little pot / Ilya Kaminsky -- I consider my luck / Eric Kraft -- The fairy tale as x-ray of the world out of joint / Norman Lock -- The world turned upside down / Gregory Maguire -- Seven dwarf essays / Michael Martone -- Nobeard / Michael Mejia -- A language of toads / Timothy Schaffert -- On making noise: confessions of a quiet kid / David J. Schwartz -- Stories, real and unreal / Vijay Seshadri -- Hansel / Richard Siken -- Frogs / Kieran Suckling -- The third bear / Jeff Vandermeer -- The boy who could not be scared / Willy Vlautin -- Afterword / Jack Zipes. |
