The American author on finding sympathy for Ted Hughes, a Palestinian take on Hamlet, and the joy of cookery books
Probably The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, read to me when I was perhaps three. It is very different from the movie and so was my first introduction to distortions and improvements in screen adaptations, and buried treasure in original texts. The mouse queen in the book completely enchanted me and of course is nowhere in the film.Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida, a story of a star-shaped piñata that becomes an actual star in the sky.
as psychodrama to try to understand teen suicide. A father whose son has killed himself is drafted to play Romeo and we are made to see him entering this death-bent mindset in the Capulet tomb scene. Shakespeare used in unorthodox ways is always interesting to me. Totally to one side of that is Miranda July’s arguably misogynistic sex comedy
The only appealing or admirable characters are the men! Yet most of the nutty drama is happening with the flawed but interesting women: well, that’s what fiction is for – flawed but interesting women. I couldn’t put it down. It has a dash of Der Rosenkavalier in it, especially in its ending.Cook books. I scarcely cook, but I love reading recipes and imagining the whole thing. A kitchen full of delicious smells. I would never read literature for comfort.
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