Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 27
1939 Key Largo by Maxwell Anderson
1973 Good Doctor by Neil Simon
This Broadway hit is a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. In one sketch a harridan storms a bank and upbraids the manager for his gout and lack of money. In another a father takes his son to a house where he will be initiated into the mysteries of sex only to relent at the last moment and leave the boy more perplexed than ever.
2019 The Cockroach by Ian McEwan (UK)
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain – and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy.
2025 The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver by Rafael Torrubia (Scotland)
No one remembers the calamity that killed the gods and stole the names of their people. Now Shipwright and Shroudweaver are known only by their professions.
She's a master of magical shipbuilding. He's a maker of the gilded gods that fuel their sails, stitched from the souls of dead sailors.
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