Interview with Jess Winfield - Author of My Name is Will

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MY NAME IS WILL A NOVEL OF SEX DRUGS AND SHAKESPEARE" is now available on audiobook at iTunes or Audible.com

Jess delighted his audience during a signing and reading to celebrate the release of the new audiobook.

We met with Jess for an interview with just before the event.

Heres what a few people have said abot My Name is Will:

Hilarious, fascinating . . . a cunningly witty, frolicsome, time-warping bildungsroman . . . Winfield slings bucketfuls of double-entendres and wily puns... But serious business underlies the literary larkiness... Winfield's high-spirited tribute is a celebration of the power of language and story through which we learn who we are and who we might be as we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, bit players reaching for the heavens in a drama beyond our grasp.

Donna Seaman, LOS ANGELES TIMES

A lusty, pun-drunk first novel by the professional wiseacre and award-winning cartoon producer Jess Winfield . . . to say that Jess Winfield knows his Shakespeare is laughable understatement. Upside down boy he knows him, inside out, and round and round . . . Winfield must have known how much harder it would be to pull off a strange eventful history like this one sans tights, sans stage, sans everything but where theres a will theres a way. . . In MY NAME IS WILL, Winfield may be accused of treating his favorite literary lion unceremoniously. But, after all, no gentleman is a hero to his varlet.

Liesl Schillinger, NEW YORK TIMES

Pulls off a potentially clumsy conceit with nuance and panache, as the lives of our two Williams intersect across time and space with mind-bending results."

Adriana Leshko, WASHINGTON POST

Happily outrageous . . . The sex throughout is well done and not for the prim . . .Winfield delights in puns from low to high (iamb what iamb'), and cleverly sprinkles conversations in the earlier age with lines that would later turn up in the plays... Well done, Winfield.

Jeffrey Burke, BLOOMBERG.COM


We have to agree, if you have not read this book, you should.

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