The college was at the edge of a small town way upstate, barely a town, maybe a hamlet, we said, or just a whistle stop, and we took walks all the time, getting out, going nowhere, low skies and bare trees, hardly a soul to be seen.

NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky

In the words of Budd Schulberg, who had seen them all from Jack Dempsey on, Jones was "Hamlet with a mouthpiece" - to be or not to be one of the greatest?

BBC: Jones out to prove his greatness

Shakespeare owned Hamlet because he created him, as none other before or since could.

NEWYORKER: In the Air

Everyone in this hamlet, it seemed, had just found a sixteen- or twenty-three-cent stamp in a dusty drawer, and had chosen today to supplement it up to viability using car-seat nickels and pennies.

NEWYORKER: The King of Sentences