Improbable Press Blog — Anna Karenina Isn't Dead

By Atlin Merrick Okay, this is a tricksy blog entry because I'm going to: * Ask the writers of our most recent anthology, Anna Karenina Isn't Dead to do a thing I'm not willing to do; * But only after I a little bit do the thing I just said I'm not willing to do. And that thing is play favorites with our recent anthology Anna Karenina Isn't Dead. Not Really But a Little Bit Kind Of First I disclaimer all over everything: obviously all of the stories in the anthology are my favorites because these thirty-two tales were selected from...

Submissions Now Closed: Thank you for 220+ stories! ANNA KARENINA ISN'T DEAD: The rewritten lives of literary legends You suffer. You die. You exist so the hero can have his journey. Who are you? You're a woman in classic literature. Of course this isn't the destiny of every woman, but from Anna Karenina to Jocasta to Cio-Cio-San, from Esmeralda to Aida to Mrs Rochester, death, madness, or suffering is the fate of far too many women in classic stories. Anna Karenina Isn't Dead undoes that. In this anthology of literary women, these women live. Do they have a happily ever after? Maybe. Do...