Ep. 10 New Boy by Tracy Chevalier -- The Stacks Book Club (Vella Lovell)
This week, actress Vella Lovell (Crazy Ex- Girlfriend, The Big Sick) is back on The Stacks. This week we're talking about New Boy by Tracy Chevalier. New Boy is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which modern day authors retell Shakespeare's classic works. New Boy is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, set in a 1970's elementary school in Washington D.C. We talk about this book in comparison to its source material, where Chevalier's book wins and where it misses, and what makes a good adaptation of Shakespeare?
While we do discuss New Boy in detail, we don't really spoil the book if you're familiar with Othello. If you don't know Othello then there may be spoilers for you. Listen at your own risk.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
O (Lionsgate)
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
MacBeth by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer's Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson
Nutshell by Ian McEwand
West Side Story (United Artists)
Othello: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition (Audible)
Romeo + Juliet (20th Century Fox)
A Chorus Line (Columbia Pictures)
Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Ten Things I Hate About You (Buena Vista Pictures)
Richard III by William Shakespeare
A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
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