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Margaret: A Survey
*Survey courtesy of Shelf Awareness On your nightstand now: Don’t have one. But if I did… A cat. A fountain pen next to crumpled up to-do lists and dialogue notes. Goggles. A headlamp. A fifth of… no,...
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Shakespeare Hates Me… And You, and You, and You
By Margaret Hedderman… Oh, and he hates you too. Screw it. Forget “The Scottish Play” and just spit it out. Macbeth. Macbeth. Macbeth. We’re cursed anyway. All our pathetic attempts at literary genius...
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The Urchin Travel Wish List
‘Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark’ Don’t mind if I do! As long as you don’t go by Shakespeare’s depiction of Denmark, the Scandinavian country is...
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The Perfect Host: David Hyde Pierce on TV, on Stage, and on Film
By Sarah Jost When the Urchins lived in London several years ago, we developed a nearly crippling addiction to the television show Frasier. As a child, I despised the series (which I had never actually...
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Considering Shakespeare
He’s the writer we all measure ourselves by and inevitably fail. Thanks, Shakespeare. His works are genius no matter how you look at them – deep philosophical contemplations on life or action-packed...
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We’d Like Some More, Please
Art never dies, right? Well, artists do. And unless your name is Roberto Bolaño or Tupac Shakur, once you die, the flood of work stops at a certain point, and we are forever left thirsty. If only we...
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