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...have "the right to be lazy," but playwright Wendy Wasserstein doesn't claim that right for herself. Her new play, Third, opens next month at New York City's Lincoln Center. A musical based on her children's book Pamela's First Musical debuts in April. And her first novel, Elements of Style, comes out in May. Wasserstein talked to TIME's BARBARA ISENBERG about what fuels all that prose...
What led you to write a novel...
...died. Playwriting is collaborative, and I wanted to do something solitary. I wrote it in notebooks. I had to speak in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I took it to the hotel there. I wrote it in Hawaii, at a writers' conference last summer, and in London. That novel truly became a wonderful companion over the past two years...
...Shalimar the Clown could also have been called "Fury", but the anger in this book is of an entirely different kind. The novel is an allegory of the rape of Kashmir, told as a story of love's betrayal and vengeance. When we first land in it, Rushdie's Kashmir is paradise. In this bucolic valley, Muslims live in peace with their Hindu neighbors and share a common culture, woven of Indian and Islamic traditions. Embodying this syncretic culture is Pachigam, a village of theatrical performers and cooks, where a tightrope walker nicknamed Shalimar has fallen in love with...
...contents to some remote arrondissement, the Pompidou decided to stay open and refit one floor at a time. So while part of the building is getting its sprinklers, the Pompidou is squeezing much of its content?an astounding 850 works?into a single floor and organizing it in a novel way. This thematic approach means that you can enjoy a Laurel and Hardy film in the same room as a delightful Picasso sculpture of a girl skipping rope (under the subtheme "childhood"). Or a Bauhaus-inspired Marcel Breuer dining-room set in front of the energetic Wassily Kandinsky painting...