Traverse, Edinburgh When a disappointed novelist teaching creative writing encounters a student fascinated by Crime and Punishment a dangerous passion is sparked At one point in Adam Rapp's dense and intense piece of storytelling theatre, Bella Baird, a Yale professor of creative writing, argues that reading a novel is akin to adultery. She calls it a joint act of imagination; the writer inventing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PM on August 5, 2024