Special Guest: Gregory Maguire
Kurt Andersen talks with Gregory Maguire, author of fairy tales for children and upside-down fairy tales for adults. His novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is now a blockbuster Broadway musical.He is also the author of Mirror Mirror, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Leaping Beauty and Other Animal Fairy Tales, and many other fairy tales for adults and children.
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