false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255952129m/2856676.jpg 2856676 2 "Utterly delicious, original, witty, hilarious and brilliant.Shakespeare In Love on magic mushrooms.The Bard has never been this much fun."-Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday and Thank You For SmokingStruggling UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of. Having been cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for cash, Willie agrees to deliver a single, giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, only to find himself a target in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs.Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen and stuck teaching Latin in the boondocks of Stratford-upon-Avon.The future Bard is asked to deliver a contraband box of sacramental wafers blessed by the Pope at a time when Catholics are being hanged, drawn and quartered as traitors.When 1980s Willie, cornered by DEA agents and one too many girlfriends, eats the giant mushroom at a Renaissance Fair, and 1580s William takes his first communion at his own shotgun wedding, their minds and stories merge--allowing each to become the fully-realized Shakespeare he is destined to be. 2882810 8 7 2008 My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs and Shakespeare total:250|5:31|4:79|3:94|2:32|1:14| 250 831 535 100 3 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 09:23:29 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 09:23:29 -0700 2009
Set simultaneously in California in 1986 and in England in 1582, My Name is Will introduces us to two young William Shakespeares.

Willie Shakespeare Greenberg, a graduate student in UC Santa Cruz, hasn't been focused on his thesis on William Shakespeare. Instead, he o...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 10:18:18 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 06:48:55 -0700 2009
It is relatively well-written, though some of the descriptive passages felt a little forced. I thought that Winfield navigates the time flip (alte...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 12:28:01 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 13:09:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jul 02 13:02:18 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 13:02:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 14 17:55:03 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 16:22:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 14:57:26 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 15:03:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 30 10:21:37 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 29 16:19:44 -0800 2008 Why, you ask, was this such a quandary?
Stuff that puts it in the fours column: unique voices, fun time-bending, I learned stuff about Shakespeare (he was a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:27:26 -0800 2009 Sat Aug 15 17:14:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 13 13:50:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 17:41:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 30 12:01:57 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 09 09:47:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 17 11:46:05 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 11:46:38 -0700 2008 William Shakespeare Greenberg--Willie--is a graduate student in English at UC Santa Cruz. It's 1986 and Willie's been drifting along, supported by his father (a professor at Berkley known for his his scholarly studies of the works of Woody Allen); although the term hasn't been invented yet, today we...more...]]> 4 5 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 25 16:07:23 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 24 22:01:47 -0700 2009 1
My Name Is Will recounts the parallel stories of a critical-year-in-the-life of William Shakespeare and his modern-day namesake William Shakespeare Greenberg (Willie), a prodigal son crui...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 14:51:13 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 06:09:58 -0700 2008 William Shakespeare (age 18) and W...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 14:24:53 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 14:29:07 -0700 2008 This delightful novel has two Shakespeares narrating: UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg in 1982 who is attempting to do everything but write his Master’s Thesis on the Bar...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 19 15:41:37 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 15:43:32 -0700 2008
Subject: So Good I Read It Twice!

More slowly the second time, of course, because my initial reaction to My Name is Will as fast vacation reading went something like Whoa! What just happened here? Was that Something? etc. I was...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 13:38:34 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 16:48:10 -0700 2008 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged, which I first experienced in a performance by one of my sons and two of his friends sometime during the en...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 19:56:37 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 19:01:38 -0700 2008 My Name is Will presents a parallel narrative in alternating chapters. One story line follows Willie Shakespeare Greenburg, a slacker, pothead graduate student at California-Santa Cruz as he (sort of) works on his master's thesis which will advance the thesis, based on one line of one sonnet, that ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 03 18:01:33 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 26 21:16:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 10:30:21 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 10:37:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 04:56:30 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 07:48:59 -0700 2008
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