What’s Old is New Episode 2.11 - Interview with Sara Levine, author of Treasure Island!!!
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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
