Michelles Green World
Michelle Ephraim \u2013 a Professor of English and (with Caroline Bicks), the cohost of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast and the co-author of Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas \u2013 joins us this week to talk about her frank and funny new book, Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare. Michelle reveals she discovered Shakespeare surprisingly late; how \u201cfun\u201d is a a perfectly fine description of her sometimes fraught memoir; the shared curse of meeting hero Stephens; how Shakespeare became a source of both pain and solace in the wake of a parent\u2019s death; how her relatively cushy job became surprisingly hazardous; and, finally, how Shakespeare \u2013 a dead European white man \u2013 became a very relatable force for inclusion. (Length 19:31)