Hello and welcome to Storytime for Grownups. I'm Faith Moore, and this is summer session.

Normally on Story Time for Grownups, we read classic literature, a few chapters at a time with a few

notes along the way, like an audiobook with built-in notes. But during the summer, we switch

things up a little. From now until September,

we will be in summer session, which is sort of like a college class, only fun. This summer,

we're exploring fairy tales and their relationship to the books we've read this year on

storytime and storytelling more broadly. We'll do this in once-a-week episodes, which will drop on Mondays.

If this doesn't sound like your thing, don't worry.

Storytime will be back with a new book in September.

But for now, brew a pot of tea, find a cozy chair, and settle in.

Class is in session.

Hi everyone. Welcome back. So I'm actually away this week. So this is a pre-recorded episode and

there won't be questions and answers at the beginning of this episode. But keep your questions about

the deep dark woods and all of the things that we've been talking about. Keep those coming. I'm

getting your emails and we will come back to those questions at the start of next week's episode.

But don't worry. This episode is really fun. I'm really excited about it. What we're doing is an interview today. So I'm going to

talk to just a little bit right now about who our guest is and what we're going to be talking

about. And then we'll go right into the interview and please do write to me. You can keep writing to me about the things

that we've been talking about all summer long and you can write to me about this interview and

anything that comes up for you while you're listening to this. And then I will be back with you

in real time next week and we'll continue on with our discussion of fairy tales. Before I talk to

a little bit about this interview, don't forget

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