The Uses of Enchantment

Signe Pike chucked her job at a NY publishing house to looking for fairies in Mexico and the British Isles.

The first stories in "Thousand and One Nights" were written down in the ninth century. They’ve been added to over the years. In some ways, it’s not so much a book as a living river of stories. Some of the most recent additions come from the celebrated novelist Salman Rushdie.

You can also hear many more interviews with Rushdie.