What's Old Is New

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Nicole Galland is the author of four novels, including I, Iago.

0:15 Welcome to Nicole Galland

0:25 About I, Iago

1:35 Iago’s motives and lack thereof inOthello

2:30 How was Nicole inspired by what Shakespeare alludes to?

5:15 Most of Nicole’s previous work is historical fiction, what led her to incorporate Shakespeare?

12:10 Shakespeare’s plays can be made relevant by actors and directors, regardless of what’s on the page.

14:30 Nicole Galland and Shakespeare for the Masses

21:40 Wrap-up and contact info

What’s Old is New is currently on maternity leave, for Jen’s new twin girls, we’ll be back hopefully later this fall or winter.

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0:15 One of Nicole’s favorites classics (who knew we HAD favorite classics?!?)

1:45 Jen mostly likes this book, but the beginning is a snoozefest.

2:35 Robert Louis Stevenson, meme master?

5:15 Thematic similarities toFrankenstein- except this is WAY BETTER.

8:45 So, we basically liked, but didn’t love this. Would Nicole like other Stevenson better now?

10:30 In which we detour into ‘protecting’ kids from literature.

13:30 Preview of our next RIP.

Bye!

I’m not sure that we’d support the inclusion of Jane Eyre - especially as first on the list! An interesting list, nonetheless.

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Sara Levine is the author of Treasure Island.

0:20 Welcome to Sara Levine, and Jen tries to introduce the three exclamation marks.

0:50 About Treasure Island!!!

2:30 Sara’s background with Stevenson’s non-exclamated Treasure Island - from essayist to novelist

4:00 Coming to Treasure Island (and classics in general) as a child, versus as an adult - and hey, we come back to Jane Eyre again, surprise!

7:20 Treasure Island!!! and how we do (and perhaps shouldn’t) respond to classics

10:40 Sara’s writing process, reading Treasure Island to write Treasure Island!!! 

12:45 What is a classic? Sara’s definition.

15:00 In which we make silly jokes about Sara, Stevenson, and punctuation.

16:30 Wrap-up

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0:25 Don’t forget about the Dickens contest!

1:06 Nicole HATED it.

2:20 Jen is indifferent.

3:10 Should Jen be allowed to listen to books she hates instead of reading them?

4:35 So, we don’t have that much to say…

5:50 Shortest show ever!