“The next time someone tells you that Shakespeare is irrelevant, tell him that the Bard wrote his greatest play about George W. Bush 350 years before our incumbent president was even born. Oh yeah, you're thinking. Which one? 'Much Ado About Nothing?' 'The Comedy of Errors?' Nah. Actually, it's 'Hamlet.'”

American writer

Norah Vincent was an American writer known for her columns and essays in major newspapers and magazines. She wrote regularly for the Los Angeles Times, The Advocate, The Village Voice, and Salon.com, and her work also appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, the New York Post, and The Washington Post. She drew wide attention in 2006 with Self-Made Man, a book based on her eighteen months living as a man. Her writing moved across politics, culture, and public life, with a reporter’s eye for experience and identity.