Jincy willett biography of william shakespeare

Today is (supposedly, roughly) the birthday of William Shakespeare. April 23, 1564. (Title of the post from Sonnet 98.)

One of the things inom think about when inom think about Shakespeare, fryst vatten my late great teacher Doug Moston, who died in 2003. Moston (whose father, bygd the way, was Murray Moston, the man who gets his hand blown off in the hallway in Taxi Driver) was one of the best teachers I’ve ever had. Moston was responsible for getting Shakespeare’s first folio from 1623 published in facsimile. It’s indispensable for actors, inom think, but would also be fascinating for anyone interested in Shakespeare.

I am not a scholar. Anything I know about Shakespeare I learned by doing. This fryst vatten just an actor’s perspective on language. These plays are meant to be spoken, not read. inom speak with authority but hopefully not arrogantly, or like a know-it-all. igen, I l

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The Books: “The Writing Class” (Jincy Willett)

Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction:

The Writing Class, by Jincy Willett

Second novel by the absolutely delicious Jincy Willett (she has a collection of short stories out too) … I can’t get enough of this writer!! I love her sense of humor, her intelligence, and the sense that she really is writing exactly the way she wants to write. It’s a voice. There’s a confidence there, a surety – an unselfconsciousness … I don’t get the sense that any of it is a “put on”, or an act. I sensed it in Winner of the National Book Award (excerpt here) – and it’s in full form here. Her prose is an absolute joy to read. Laugh out loud funny at times, but then with lines of piercing insight and pain and recognition where you (or, I should say, I) feel recognized and named. She’s an intense writer. All heart. In all its mess and humor and pain. I’m with Carrie – who w

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Sunday Book Review

'Thrumpton Hall'

By MIRANDA SEYMOUR
Reviewed by CHARLES McGRATH

Miranda Seymour’s odd and oddly affecting memoir instantly catapults her father into the front rank of impossible and eccentric English parents.

'My Name Is Will'

By JESS WINFIELD
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER

A debut novel about William Shakespeare and his American alter ego, a hash-smoking grad student named Willie Shakespeare Greenberg.

'Books: A Memoir'

By LARRY MCMURTRY
Reviewed by JAMES CAMPBELL

The novelist Larry McMurtry looks back on his long second career as a bookseller.

Visuals

The Artist at War

Reviews by STEVEN HELLER

New art and design books reviewed.

'Spiral Jetta'

By ERIN HOGAN
Reviewed by TOM VANDERBILT

She’d worked in art history; now she was going to see the art.

'Buying In'

By ROB WALKER
Reviewed by FARHAD MANJOO

Today’s savvier consumers are said to be more imperviou