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Ginsberg wrote in a letter: “Dylan is a major American bard & minstrel of the XX Century, whose words have influenced many generations throughout the world. He deserves a Nobel Prize in recognition of his mighty and universal powers...
...latest book, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, the award-winning Norton Anthology editor recreates a possible life of the elusive bard in order to postulate how Elizabethan England gave rise to who is widely regarded as the world’s greatest writer...
...Philippines is a land of storytellers, but the saga of the modern nation remains largely unknown beyond its own shores. Han Ong would appear to be in a good position to fill the post of bard. The native Filipino immigrated to the U.S. when he was 16, achieved success there as a playwright and won a MacArthur "genius" fellowship. His first novel, Fixer Chao, was about a Filipino male prostitute in New York City who poses as a feng-shui expert to fleece the rich...
...What sustains the reader's interest is Ong's rich use of language, which at its best reflects "the pell-mell, absurd, bountiful, magical nature of the Philippines," in Ong's generous phrase. Yet if this gifted writer is to realize his potential as a novelist-bard for the Philippines, his vision needs to be tempered by a stringent course of narrative basics...
...silence. Or is it? By listening closely to the poems and plays, and by assembling scraps of historical evidence into (mostly) plausible surmises, scholar Stephen Greenblatt has produced Will in the World (Norton; 406 pages), a dazzling and subtle biography, due Sept. 20, that teases out possibilities in the bard's inner and outer life, like the much argued conjecture that in youth, Shakespeare was secretly Catholic in an England where the old faith was being suppressed. You may not always be persuaded by Greenblatt's intuitive leaps, but you'll have great fun watching him jump. --By Richard Lacayo...