A new world flavour to Shelf Life this week, as the novelist Sean Thomas Russell joins us from Vancouver. He has been getting to grips with Shakespeare — an attempt, perhaps, to escape the pervasive influence of Bill O’Reilly. His latest novel, A Ship of War, is published in Britain next week.
1) What are you reading at the moment?
Shakespeare After All by Marjorie
Garber. I’ve been on a Shakespeare kick recently. I just finished Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt and A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare:
1599 by James Shapiro. I recommend all three.
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and
Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn. I don’t think kids read these anymore but they are the books that made me decide to become a writer.
3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
I get choked up over a well-written sentence!
4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books.
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