In her new novel, All's Well, author Mona Awad combines elements of All's Well That Ends Well, Macbeth, and the 1999 movie Election to tell the story of Miranda Fitch, a theater professor with a mutinous cast and excruciating chronic pain. What do those plays have in common, and how did Awad weave them together to create her darkly funny new book? She is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev.
Dr. Mona Awad is the author of three novels. 13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl, published by Penguin in 2016, won the Amazon Best First Novel Award. Her 2019 novel Bunny was a finalist for a GoodReads Choice Award for Best Horror. Her novel All's Well was published by Simon & Schuster and Penguin Canada in August 2021.
Awad has taught creative writing at Brown University, the University of Denver, Framingham State University, Tufts and in the MFA program at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published August 31, 2021. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, "Lord, How We Lose Our Pains!," was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. Leonor Fernandez edits our transcripts. We had technical help from Andrew Feliciano and Paul Luke at Voice Trax-West in Studio City, California. Photo of Dr. Awad copyright Brigitte Lacombe.
