At the end of this year, which had a truly Gothic amount of plot in it, we’re anticipating more wildness in the months to come. Into the Woods after the demise of the narrator. Over the holidays and in between time with family and friends, while reading lush and piercing work in process and building my winter course, I’ve been reading Sabrina Orah Mark’s beautiful Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales. She interweaves motifs and histories of Jewish and other tales with family stories and cultural readings, and grapples with how to both interpret and survive the world around us. Mark, whose poetry and short fiction live in the realm of tales and dreams, here digs into the sources and nature of these tales.