Our summer fiction series continues with On Hurricane Island by Easthampton author Ellen Meeropol. In it, Meeropol introduces readers to a math professor named Gandalf Cohen who is abducted by federal agents and flown to a secret interrogation center off the coast of Maine. New England Public Radio’s Susan Kaplan asked Meeropol how she came up with a character named after the iconic Tolkien wizard.
Click the audio player above to hear the interview.