A director of an Edward Albee play asked the playwright to read out loud one of the central monologues of the play so she could gain insight into what he meant when he wrote it. "Hearing him read it, with his own cadence, was fantastically illuminating." People frequently ask what you intended in a certain book when you wrote this or that. But I have always said that as soon as I finish writing a book, I become "only" another reader of it, nothing more or less. As a result, what I think of a ...
Published on January 13, 2010 21:30