Author Michael Cunningham was fascinated by fairy tales as a child — but he always wondered what happened after the story ended. His new collection, A Wild Swan, tries to answer that question.

For one thing, people might not let Disney off the hook so easily ... I think, survive ever after." Not always happily.

Author Michael Cunningham was fascinated by fairy tales as a child — but he always wondered what happened after the story ended. His new... 'A Wild Swan' Flies Beyond Happily Ever After Author ...

A couple of my favorites were, one, the prince and the maiden go off to his castle together and lived happily ever after, and I sort of thought, well, go on! And my mother and father would look at me ...