Genna Rose Nethercott

Jun 24, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Genna Rose Nethercott |Olivie Blake |Genoveva Dimova

Reading Lists From Baba Yaga to monstrous girls, Genoveva Dimova recommends fantasy novels featuring Eastern European mythology First, let me explain my title: I like using “folklores” in the plural, since there isn’t such a thing as a single, monolithic Slavic folklore. There are many different Slavic folklores, all drawing on different influences and borrowing from various neighbours, creating a rich tapestry stretching across Eastern Europe. At the same time, despite all our differences,...

Mar 11, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Genna Rose Nethercott

GennaRose Nethercott is a folklorist and a performer, and these talents are on full display in the deeply weird and satisfying Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart. These dark, delightfully unique fairytales are somehow both utterly modern and classically timeless. This is Nethercott’s first collection of short stories, following her novel, Thistlefoot, and book-length poem, The Lumberjack’s Dove.

Feb 13, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Genna Rose Nethercott

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. GennaRose Nethercott’s debut Thistlefoot was one of my favorite novels of 2022.

Feb 5, 2024 | reactormag.com | Genna Rose Nethercott |Chris Lough |Charlie Jane Anders |Christina Orlando

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt along with several illustrations from GennaRose Nethercott’s Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart, a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us or go monstrously wrong—out from Vintage on February 6. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known.

Oct 30, 2023 | tor.com | Genna Rose Nethercott

In Ray Bradbury’s short story “A Sound of Thunder,” a wealthy time travel tourist accidentally crushes a pre-historic butterfly beneath his shoe. This delicate, seemingly insignificant mistake ripples forward to create an entire alternate future. It’s a truth that extends far beyond fiction— ow the smallest acts can bloat, twist, topple dominos that leave our world irrevocably changed. Like the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand as the catalyst for WWI.