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Under the Volcano – First Draft

It was 1979,  my first year at the Yale School of Drama.  A friend — the producer who had given me my first paying job as a screenwriter and paid my initiation into the Writer's Guild — was trying to get the rights to Under the Volcano.  For months he had been taunting me with [...]

Gifts from Nola

An essay I wrote about Post-Katrina New Orleans: Gifts from Nola (first published in Bomb, Summer 2006) Share on Facebook