This Week in Fiction: Michael Cunningham

Your story in this week’s issue, “Little Man,” is one in a series of rewritten fairy tales that you’ll be publishing as a collection, titled “A Wild Swan and Other Tales,” in November. And your last novel, “The Snow Queen,” took the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale as its starting point—and reinterpreted it in the lives of a group of contemporary characters. Have fairy tales been a big influence on you as a writer and a reader? What inspired these reimaginings?