Neil Gaiman’s next new book inspired by “Hansel and Gretel”!

 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/books/…

Here’s what Neil Gaiman says about his next book:

I’ve got a new book coming out in November — a version of “Hansel and Gretel.” I had been fascinated by “Hansel and Gretel” since I was 5, hearing the story on a radio adaptation. And I remember getting really irritated in my 20s, around the time when those books on psychological interpretations of fairy tales started coming out. I would read these things explaining that “Hansel and Gretel” was all about sex. From my perspective, it’s about a famine that is bad enough that the parents are basically having to go, “O.K., we can abandon our children, and we parents have a chance of living, or we all four die because there is no food.” It’s about leaving clues that are then eaten. It’s about a gingerbread house, the desire for sweets.

He sure got that right.