Unfortunately, what caught my eye was this equally disastrous typo by the interviewer. The conversation turned to new cultural programs:
[SW] Last summer we brought a Wharton play back to the drawing room with Xingu It was adapted from a short story of Wharton's by Dennis Krausnick (The husband of Shakespeare & Company founder, Tina Packer). This summer we will also present one of Dennis's adaptations Summer. She called it her "Hot Ethan." It is a story of a young woman's sexual awakening and takes place in the Berkshires.
CG [=interviewer] It sounds steamy.
SW It has a few steamy passages. It is too risqué to be read in school which is why students ream Ethan Frome. It entails such hot issues as teenage pregnancy and abortion. [emphasis added]
CG That sounds like a lively production . . .
1) Ouch.
2) And: Indeed—though not too risqué for Amherst, I'd wager.
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