Anne Tyler

Round-Down: The Hogarth Series Will Reinvent Shakespeare’s Works As Novels

Round-Down: The Hogarth Series Will Reinvent Shakespeare’s Works As Novels

ByPeter Kispert

Jeanette Winterson’s novel The Gap of Time, released only one week ago, is the first book launched of a larger series, called The Hogarth Shakespeare. The series, from the revered Vintage Books, plans to do the very exciting and almost unthinkable: reimagine Shakespeare’s classic plays as novels penned by some of today’s finest modern writers….

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No Shoes, No Shirt, No Fiction: Let’s Get Out of the Restaurant

ByRebecca Makkai

  “I need to tell you something,” he said. He twirled his spaghetti around his fork. She sipped her wine. “What is it?” “Well.” He shoved the tangle of spaghetti in his mouth and chewed. She fiddled with her spoon. Suddenly, the waitress appeared. She had a grease stain on her apron. Her nametag read…