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...does a company avoid the evil spirits or their implications? Well, perhaps the Hyperion Shakespeare Company has less to worry about, as their outdoor performances feature no sandbags or elaborate set pieces. Instead, the student-run Shakespeare performing arts group have staid true to their mandate of “bringing Shakespeare to a larger community,” said Hyperion Co-President Julie L. Rattey...
...Hyperion will stage the Scottish play in an environment that naturally substitutes for the play’s menacing battlefields and regal halls of stone, the open-air courtyard of Hilles Library in the Radcliffe Quadrangle...
...DIDN?T START THE FIRE: On May 29, Hyperion will publish "Firehouse" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam. The book will be a portrait of Engine 40 Ladder 35 on W. 66th Street, which lost 12 men in the WTC attack. According to the publisher, "In the tradition of John Hersey?s ?Hiroshima,? Halberstam tells the story of the community within this firehouse, before, during and after the cataclysmic events of September 11th." The book grew out of an article commissioned by Vanity Fair, where Halberstam is a contributing editor...
...CAMELOT CORNER: Caroline Kennedy, editor of the best-selling "The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis," is at it again. "Profiles in Courage For Our Time," edited by Caroline Kennedy, will be published by Hyperion on May 1. Kirkus approves. "Character sketches of 14 men and women who have won the Profiles in Courage Award, which recognizes elected officials who ?stood fast for the ideals of America...By and large, a refreshing sampling of political legacies cleaving to the notion of equality and justice on behalf of the weak and exploited." In October, Hyperion will publish "Patriotic Poems," Kennedy...
...three wishes: to meet his idol, Jimmy Carter; to publish a volume of his poetry; and--because he has a keen nose for commerce--to get on the Oprah Winfrey Show to hawk his books. Success! MATTIE STEPANEK, 11, got all his wishes and then one: a contract from Hyperion for three books to join his best-selling volumes Heartsongs and Journey Through Heartsongs. Stepanek, of Upper Marlboro, Md., has a rare form of muscular dystrophy that keeps him on a ventilator; the disease killed his two brothers and sister. His mother also has MD. Mattie showed his gift...