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Saif Ahmed began living the Dubai dream five years ago. Armed with an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto, the Canadian entrepreneur moved to the gulf city-state and co-founded property developer Universal Canlink Inc. By 2006 the firm had annual revenues of $15 million, luring foreign investors with...
2. FM: What is your motivation to write revised fairy tales? GM: I wanted to write books of ideas that people would read; I used fairy tales as a kind of bait and switch. I thought readers would think it would be relaxing, and they would not have to work...
4. FM: Your narratives twist well-known fairy tales. Which came first: your stories, “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,” or “Shrek?” GM: I think “Shrek” came first.
Tallinn seems made for such spooky tales. The medieval city is one of the best preserved in Europe, its 13th and 14th century gabled buildings built when Tallinn was a major link in the chain of Hanseatic trading centers that stretched across the continent's north. As the days grow...
The life of a Hollywood producer is full of bizarre encounters with belligerent actors, eccentric directors, and hard-nosed executives, which makes for some odd-ball stories. Such stranger-than-fiction tales delighted readers in producer Art Linson’s 2002 memoir “What Just Happened?: Bitter...