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Many people have favorite movie stars and favorite musicians. For example, mine are to stick with the living the actor Jeremy Irons and the pianist Martha Argerich. However, being a bookish lad, I also have a favorite intellectual, Marina Warner. Past president of Britain's Royal Society of Literature, Warner specializes in the study of mythology, religion and fairy tales, but also writes art, film and cultural criticism, as well as novels and short stories. Of her many books, I've only read seven or eight, but each has bowled me over, especially "From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers," and "Stranger Magic: Charmed Stories & the Arabian Nights."