Welcome to Zero to Well Read, a podcast about everything you need to know about the books

you wish you read or have read and just want to hear other people talk about or want to get

back into, I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm Rebecca Schinsky. Grab your hankies, friends, because today we

are discussing Hamlet by Maggie O'Ffarrell before we jump in if you're

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questions for us, now is your time. You could ask for recommendations, you know, things.

I've got some ideas. Rebecca, I've been shared with this. Like, we might do some superlatives

from our first season, like our most surprising moment or favorite character or a character we send

to a desert island. So if you've got any ideas,

thoughts about the show's favorite bits, feedback your own emendations to our interpretations

or thinking here. Always good to hear those. So we're doing Hamnet. By the time this comes out,

the film Hamnet will be in playing in theaters these kind of award season rollouts I think

it's more than New York and L.A. Will you be able to see it this weekend? Will most people be able to see it?

Tomorrow as we're discussing. I wanted to experience the book on its own. I'm seeing the film

tomorrow. It's been open. I think in New York and L.A., maybe a couple other select cities

already. and then the

wide release is December 12th. So we're threading the needle with our release date here. You might or might not be able to see the film right now, but if you've had your eye on the book, or maybe you read it when it first came out and you're here for a refresher, you can get that and then head on down to the theater.

Hemnet by Maggio Farrell.

That's the subject today.

It's been out for five-ish years. It came out in 2020, March of 2020, as it happens. And we all know it was happening then. And its subtitle, A Novel of the Plague, was both auspicious and misleading, which I think we're going to talk about in the course of the show today.

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