English 109

I’d like to give a shout out to Mercy College’s English 109 students. Their professors put together a 500 page reader, Tales of Wonder from Many Lands, and my version of an Iraqi folktale, “The Price of Jasmines and Lilies,” is included.

I highly recommend Inea Bushnaq’s Arab Folktales as further reading (for Mercy students or anyone else interested in this particular flavor of folklore). I used the collection as a source for a few of the stories I wrote for Fables, and it’s quite wonderful.

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