From the Wall Street Journal: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will announce next week that it has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three years. Yes, translations — because Shakespeare’s English is so far removed from the English of 2015 that it often interferes with our own comprehension.
2. The Author Is Purely a Name
From Guernica: By Elena Ferrante – Fragments on writing, publishing, and being an anonymous worldwide phenomenon.
3. Jonathan Franzen: “Modern life has become extremely distracting”
From The Guardian: The author on the “meaningless noise” that pours through the internet, the writing of his fourth novel, Freedom, and the death of his friend David Foster Wallace
4. Patti Smith Talks Fame, Youth, and Her New Memoir, M Train
From Vanity Fair: As the follow-up to 2010′s Just Kids hits shelves, the punk pioneer discusses her literary inspirations.
From Vogue: Patti Smith Makes a Pilgrimage to French Guiana in This Exclusive Excerpt From Her New Memoir.
5. A Possibly True Ghost Story From David Mitchell
From Lit Hub: Once upon a time in Japan, at the foot of the bed …
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