XO Orpheus
Subtitle: fifty new myths
By: edited by Kate Bernheimer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780143122425
Subjects: Greek Mythology; Fiction; History
Other titles: Orpheus :; Fifty new myths; 50 new myths
Description: Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "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 ... are your favorite mythological figures--Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful dog--alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, Aztec, and other traditions"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Kate Bernheimer -- Anthropogenesis And Norse Creation Myth :; title: Anthropogenesis, Or: How to Make a Family  -- Laura van den Berg -- Argos :; title: Argos  -- Joy Williams -- Bacchantes; title: Sisters  -- Sabina Murray -- Baucis And Philemon :; title: Sawdust  -- Edward Carey -- Brownies :; title: Friend Robin  -- Maile Chapman -- Caliph Of One Thousand And One Nights :; title: Veiled Prophet  -- David B. -- Candaules And Gyges, As Told By Herodotus :; title: Henry and Booboo  -- Elanor Dymott -- Coyote Myths :; title: Modern Coyote  -- Shane Jones -- Cronos :; title: Devourings  -- Aimee Bender -- Daedalus :; title: Labyrinth  -- Ron Currie, Jr. -- Daedalus :; title: The Last Flight of Daedalus  -- Anthony Marra -- Daphne :; title: Daphne  -- Dawn Raffel -- Demeter :; title: Demeter  -- Maile Meloy -- Demeter And Persephone :; title: Kid Collins  -- Willy Vlautin -- Eris :; title: Sleeping Beauty  -- Gina Ochsner --gtGalatea And Pygmalion :; title: Galatea  -- Madeline Miller -- God And Satan :; title: Hand  -- Manuel Munoz -- Golem And Pygmalion :; title: Dummy  -- Benjamin Percy -- Hades :; title: Girl with the Talking Shadow  -- Kale Bernheimer -- Human Pentachromats :; title: Wait and See  -- Edith Pearlman -- Icarus :; title: An Occasional Icarus  -- Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud --gtKillcrop :; title: Killcrop  -- Victor LaValle -- Kraken :; title: Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun  -- Ben Loory -- Lamia/Child-Eating Demon, Greek :; title: Birdsong from the Radio  -- Elizabeth McCracken --gtLotus Eaters :; title: Lotus Eaters  -- Aurelie Sheehan -- Maenads And Sinbad The Sailor :; title: Slaves  -- Elizabeth Evans -- Mahabharata :; title: Drona's Death  -- Max Gladstone -- Monsters :; title: So Many-Headed Gates  -- Sheila Heti -- Edith Hamilton's Mythology :; title: Status of Myth  -- Kelly Braffet and Owen King -- Narcissus :; title: Narcissus  -- Zachary Mason -- Odysseus :; title: Back to Blandon  -- Michael Jeffrey Lee -- Odysseus :; title: Story I Am Speaking to You Now  -- Davis Schneiderman -- Oedipus :; title: Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt  -- Imad Rahman; title: Orpheus And Eurydice :; title: Dark Resort  -- Heidi Julavits -- Paradise :; title: Mystery Spot: 95065  -- Karen Tei Yamashita -- Persephone :; title: Lost Lake  -- Emma Straub and Peter Straub -- Phaeton, From Ovid's Metamorphoses :; title: What Wants My Son  -- Kevin Wilson -- Poseidon :; title: Thousand  -- Laird Hunt -- Post-Apocalypse :; title: Belle-Medusa  -- Manuela Draeger -- Raja Rasalu :; title: Swan's Wife  -- Aamer Hussein -- Sedna, Inuit :; title: Sanna  -- Kathryn Davis -- Sirin :; title: Madame Liang  -- Lutz Bassmann -- Sisyphus :; title: Sissy  -- Kit Reed -- Strix :; title: In a Structure Simulating an Owl  -- Ander Monson -- Tezcatlipoca :; title: Cat's Eye  -- Donaji Olmedo -- Transformation :; title: Betrayal  -- Sigrid Nunez -- Trojan Horse :; title: A Horse, a Vine  -- Johanna Skibsrud -- Unconscious :; title: Hungers of an Old Language  -- Brian Aldiss -- Zeus And Europa, After The D'Aulaires :; title: White Horse -- Sarah Blackman.