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Michael Cunningham: A Wild Swan: Fairy Tales Reimagined

Michael Cunningham: A Wild Swan: Fairy Tales Reimagined

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library


Michael Cunningham: A Wild Swan: Fairy Tales Reimagined

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

ratings:
Length:
63 minutes
Released:
Dec 2, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

 A poisoned apple and a monkey’s paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan’s wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours transforms the mythic figures of our childhood in his newest work, A Wild Swan and Other Tales. Cunningham discusses bringing to life these never-before-told moments of beloved fairy tales with the ever-imaginative novelist Aimee Bender. Join us for an enchanting evening of reimagined—and sometimes darkly perverse—bedtime stories with two of today’s most gifted storytellers.**Click here for photos from the event.  
Released:
Dec 2, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

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