# Xo Orpheus

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***xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths*** is a 2013 anthology edited by [Kate Bernheimer](/source/Kate_Bernheimer). It is a collection of stories based on older myths and fairy tales, billed as a "new way of mythmaking." The book was nominated for the 2014 [World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology](/source/World_Fantasy_Award_for_Best_Anthology).

## Contents

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

## Reception

*[Publishers Weekly](/source/Publishers_Weekly)* called the book an "ingenious new anthology of boundless imagination". The review concluded that these "enthralling contemporary myths are bold stories of love, loss, friendship, disaster and everything in between."[1]

A review in *[Time Out](/source/Time_Out_(magazine))* praised Bernheimer's wide selection of stories, writing that the collection "[ranges] from archaic and straightforward to contemporary and experimental—without repeating tone or genre."[2]

The book was nominated for the 2014 [World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology](/source/World_Fantasy_Award_for_Best_Anthology).[3]

## References

1. ["xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths"](https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-14-312242-5). [Publishers Weekly](/source/Publishers_Weekly). 11 Nov 2013. Retrieved 19 Dec 2024.

1. ["Book Review: xo Orpheus edited by Kate Bernheimer"](https://www.timeout.com/newyork/books/book-review-xo-orpheus-edited-by-kate-bernheimer). Time Out. 17 Sep 2013. Retrieved 19 Dec 2024.

1. ["World Fantasy Awards 2014"](http://www.sfadb.com/World_Fantasy_Awards_2014). sfadb. Retrieved 19 Dec 2024.

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