. “Hamlet takes his coffee black. Claudius stalks the salad bar. Polonius can rarely resist dessert. One day, while serving Ophelia her soup, I watch with horror as a few drops of roasted tomato land on the table in front of her, like gobs of blood. She smiles; she doesn’t seem to mind.“ For Middlebury Magazine.

Categories: Print • Tags: Bread Loaf School of English, Hamlet, Marcel Proust, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, worlds colliding