<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Last question and response in this NYT interview--expanded version available at <a href="http://nytimes.com/books">nytimes.com/books</a>.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Cheers--</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Karen Levenback </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> K L Levenback <<a href="mailto:kllevenback@att.net">kllevenback@att.net</a>><br><b>Date:</b> February 21, 2016 at 9:34:42 AM EST<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:kllevenback@att.net">kllevenback@att.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>NYTimes: Darryl Pinckney: By the Book</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/books/review/darryl-pinckney-by-the-book.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/books/review/darryl-pinckney-by-the-book.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>The author, most recently, of “Black Deutschland” read “Othello” early: “It was important to me that ‘we’ were there, proof that ‘we’ had been on the mind of the exalted William Shakespeare.”</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Sent from my iPad</span></div></blockquote></body></html>