Loved the connections to Twelfth Night here. James and I've stumbled onto so many seemingly obvious and definitely potential allusions to that play in New Sun, most visibly with Valeria, that I think it must have had a special place in Wolfe's heart. I wanted to ask if you or anyone else can recall any shout outs in any of the short stories, especially around this time in his life? There's at least a short essay to be written here, methinks. :)
And I thought the same re: Olivia and podcasts when reading it this time (Ch 2 'audiobook' soon to be finished, too, btw)... loved hearing you say it! heh heh
This is a great question. Off-hand, I don't remember us talking about Twelfth Night before, but of course that doesn't mean we just didn't miss it.
And yeah, somebody should write that article! Are we nominating people for the job?