Virtual performance highlights have included Hermione Lee, author of Tom Stoppard: A Life (Knopf), interviewing the legendary playwright. During the pandemic, I've missed being in live audiences, though I do rely on Zoomlandia (in all its variations) when I need a digital hit, especially if the event is connected to a recent favorite read. And those words from rapper, singer/ songwriter and essayist Dessa offer welcome perspective for these strange times. Maybe it's because we haven't been able to go to films, plays or concerts for more than a year that I've been reading more books connected to the performing arts.
For the heir it's Malcolm and for The Porter it's, well, it's whatever his name is, which wasn't even dignified with a mention in the script," Dessa writes in My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science and Senseless Love (Dutton). "For the sitting king, the play isn't called Macbeth, it's called Duncan.
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