Richard Schoch

3 weeks ago | bloomsbury.com | Richard Schoch |Sarah J. Maas |Gillian Anderson |Kamila Shamsie

In July 1769, the first published image of William Shakespeare’s birthplace appeared in Gentleman’s Magazine. Based on a watercolour drawing made seven years earlier by the antiquary Richard Greene, it depicted a detached, three-gabled building with dormer windows. The caption underneath read, ‘A House in Stratford upon Avon, in which the famous Poet Shakspear was born’. An impressive abode, especially for the family of a town glovemaker like John Shakespeare.

2 months ago | culturevulture.net | Richard Schoch |Lewis Whittington

Want to find out why you do the things you do but don’t want to see a psychologist, how about seeing a Sondheim musical instead? Richard Schoch delves into the life lessons built into his shows in ‘How Stephen Sondheim Can Change Your Life.’ Schoch’s thesis might sound like a stretch but it isn’t, think of it as a musical-theater equivalent of sports metaphors or even Socrates, in fact a funny thing happen on the way to this book forum and it was a lot of fun.