FICTION / NONFICTION
A small sampling of recent prose, from various corners of the nets:
Getting There, Away (short story, published Dec. 2011)
Salon editor Dave Daley has been running this online fiction emporium for close to five years I think. There are over 302 stories in the archives, with great pieces by established authors (like Jennifer Egan, Maile Meloy, etc). This story has been through a dozen iterations, from being a story exclusively about the missing wedding ring (titled, then, “Splitting”), to a Bali bombing-inspired honeymoon-in-peril (if that’s a thing), to what it is now, which is some mixture of both with a helping of many subordinate clauses. I wanted to write something funny/sad, and let a smart person be afraid. I’m most proud of the way that the three disparate threads come together.
End of the Line (documentary play excerpt, published Jan. 2012)
Improbably, a four-page excerpt from RUST appeared in the Jan. 8th, 2012 edition of the New York Times Sunday Magazine. There were countless times during the devising process when I thought: I need to interview just ONE more person, one more story…Sean, the artistic director of Working Group, kept saying, no you don’t. You’re done. Now we make some theatre. But I think, in the end, the interviews ARE the play, and I’m proud of how many disparate voices are in the show. Incidentally, Jack (aka Jim Zambon), the fellow who closes the excerpt, died the day this piece came out. He never saw the show, I don’t think he wanted to. But I think he would have been impressed to see his words bitchslap me in the pages of the Times.
Wasteland (nonfiction, published May 2002)
One of my old favorites: a NYTimes Magazine feature about pilot season. I had just moved to Los Angeles that year and in January, all my friends — who, prior to this, had spent hours on their rooftop pools, driving up the canyons, getting stoned — vanished. They all had jobs on new television pilots. For this piece, I decided to try to wrap my head around the economics of the television industry. Alas, I can now report I came nowhere close.
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