Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2010 Event Descriptions

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me

3:00pm Boston Public Library Popular Reading Room 700 Boylston Street

Before Disney, fairy tales were pretty gruesome. Join some of the most creative writers around to hear their takes on literature's oldest genre. Kathryn Davis and Kelly Link spin some magnificent tales in the new collection My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, while Harvard’s authority on folklore and fairy tale, Maria Tatar, provides an historical perspective. Hosted by the book’s editor Kate Bernheimer, who will also read from her story in the collection.