Frank Meola

Frank Meola has published work in New England Review, Prospects, South Carolina Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and The New York Times. He contributed an essay to Framing Hitchcock and recently completed a novel. Now he is at work on a new novel juxtaposing the 21st and 19th centuries. Meola holds an MFA from Columbia and a Ph. D. from UCLA. He teaches writing and humanities at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.

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Shakespeare and the Imagination of America

Frank Meola  | 
Issue 65.2 Spring 2016

The play opens, famously, with a storm. We are in the midst of it, and we know only that a boat is shattering on a violent sea and men are shouting. Tempest-tossed, lost and frightened, these characters seem far from …