Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we talk about coming to terms with things, including glitter, Shakespeare, and loss.

Show links:

• Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed
• Which is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare collection.
• UK exam board fined$250,000 for confusing characters from Romeo and Juliet.
• Clark County inmates learning to engineer, produce, and play music. (Autoplay video warning. Sorry.)
• 10 minute documentary about a very unlikley soul album.YouTube Link. Here's one of their songs.
• Paper: The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities PDF link

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