What’s Old is New Episode 2.4 - Interview with Louis Bayard, author of The School of Night
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Louis Bayard is the author of The School of Night and a number of other mysteries, many of which have their roots in classic literature
0:27 Louis explains The School of Night
1:25 The connection between Shakespeare and the title, and background on the real School of Night
3:10 The villainy of book lovers in The School of Night
5:35 Is there anyone whose manuscript Louis would kill to have? Thoughts on collecting versus reading
10:30 Why reincarnate classic authors and characters?
14:00 The definition of a classic, a la Louis Bayard, in which we all diss some classics (and, you know, Jane Eyre and Frankenstein)
22:00 Everybody Loves Shakespeare (and Poe, and Dickens…why is it so?) - wait, he’s actually right that her name is Anne Hathaway. Also, Jen tries to insert a Doctor Who reference
27:45 Wrap-up, contact us!
