Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

XO Orpheus : fifty new myths / [compiled and] edited by Kate Bernheimer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2013Description: xxiii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0143122428 (pbk.)
  • 9780143122425 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • 50 new myths
  • Fifty new myths
  • Orpheus : fifty new myths
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction / Kate Bernheimer-- Anthropogenesis And Norse Creation Myth : Anthropogenesis, Or: How to Make a Family / Laura van den Berg -- Argos : Argos / Joy Williams -- Bacchantes : The Sisters / Sabina Murray -- Baucis And Philemon : Sawdust / Edward Carey -- Brownies : Friend Robin / Maile Chapman -- The Caliph Of One Thousand And One Nights : The Veiled Prophet / David B. -- Candaules And Gyges, As Told By Herodotus : Henry and Booboo / Elanor Dymott -- Coyote Myths : Modern Coyote / Shane Jones -- Cronos : Devourings / Aimee Bender -- Daedalus : Labyrinth / Ron Currie, Jr. -- Daedalus : The Last Flight of Daedalus / Anthony Marra -- Daphne : Daphne / Dawn Raffel -- Demeter : Demeter / Maile Meloy -- Demeter And Persephone : Kid Collins / Willy Vlautin -- Eris : Sleeping Beauty / Gina Ochsner -- Galatea And Pygmalion : Galatea / Madeline Miller -- God And Satan : The Hand / Manuel Munoz -- Golem And Pygmalion : The Dummy / Benjamin Percy -- Hades : The Girl with the Talking Shadow / Kale Bernheimer -- Human Pentachromats : Wait and See / Edith Pearlman -- Icarus : An Occasional Icarus / Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud -- Killcrop : Killcrop / Victor LaValle -- The Kraken : The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun / Ben Loory -- Lamia/Child-Eating Demon, Greek : Birdsong from the Radio / Elizabeth McCracken -- The Lotus Eaters : The Lotus Eaters / Aurelie Sheehan -- The Maenads And Sinbad The Sailor : Slaves / Elizabeth Evans -- Mahabharata : Drona's Death / Max Gladstone -- Monsters : So Many-Headed Gates / Sheila Heti -- Edith Hamilton's Mythology : The Status of Myth / Kelly Braffet and Owen King -- Narcissus : Narcissus / Zachary Mason -- Odysseus : Back to Blandon / Michael Jeffrey Lee -- Odysseus : The Story I Am Speaking to You Now / Davis Schneiderman -- Oedipus : The Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt / Imad Rahman -- Orpheus And Eurydice : Dark Resort / Heidi Julavits -- Paradise : Mystery Spot: 95065 / Karen Tei Yamashita -- Persephone : Lost Lake / Emma Straub and Peter Straub -- Phaeton, From Ovid's Metamorphoses : What Wants My Son / Kevin Wilson -- Poseidon : Thousand / Laird Hunt -- Post-Apocalypse : Belle-Medusa / Manuela Draeger -- Raja Rasalu : The Swan's Wife / Aamer Hussein -- Sedna, Inuit : Sanna / Kathryn Davis -- Sirin : Madame Liang / Lutz Bassmann -- Sisyphus : Sissy / Kit Reed -- The Strix : In a Structure Simulating an Owl / Ander Monson -- Tezcatlipoca : Cat's Eye / Donaji Olmedo -- Transformation : Betrayal / Sigrid Nunez -- Trojan Horse : A Horse, a Vine / Johanna Skibsrud -- The Unconscious : The Hungers of an Old Language / Brian Aldiss -- Zeus And Europa, After The D'Aulaires : The White Horse / Sarah Blackman.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Bernheim Kate Available 33111007484450
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling 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, in beguiling guise, are your favorite mythological figures alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, and other traditions.

Aimee Bender retells the myth of the Titans.

Elizabeth McCracken retells the myth of Lamia, the child-eating mistress of Zeus.

Madeline Miller retells the myth of Galatea.

Kevin Wilson retells the myth of Phaeton, from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Emma Straub and Peter Straub retell the myth of Persephone.

Heidi Julavits retells the myth of Orpheus and Euridice.

Ron Currie, Jr. retells the myth of Dedalus.

Maile Meloy retells the myth of Demeter.

Zachary Mason retells the myth of Narcissus.

Joy Williams retells the myth of Argos, Odysseus' dog.

If "xo" signals a goodbye, then xo Orpheus is a goodbye to an old way of mythmaking. Featuring talkative goats, a cat lady, a bird woman, a beer-drinking ogre, a squid who falls in love with the sun, and a girl who gives birth to cubs, here are extravagantly imagined, bracingly contemporary stories, heralding a new beginning for one of the world's oldest literary traditions.

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

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.

Powered by Koha