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A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas - Paperback

by Dan O'Brien
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dan O'BrienPublish date:2021-09-14Pages:100
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628973839ISBN-10:1628973838UPC:9781628973839Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Theater, EssaysBook Topic:PlaywritingSize:7.80 x 4.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCXTNTZ6CN
Drawing on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens--first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the US Air Force Academy--offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628973839ISBN-10:1628973838UPC:9781628973839Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Theater, EssaysBook Topic:PlaywritingSize:7.80 x 4.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCXTNTZ6CN
Dan O'Brien is a playwright, poet, librettist, and essayist whose recognition includes a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama & Performance Art and the UK's Fenton Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. True Story: A Trilogy of O'Brien's plays was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2023, and in 2021 his collection of essays, A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas, was published by Dalkey Archive in the US and by CB Editions in the UK. His poetry collections are Survivor's Notebook, Our Cancers, New Life, Scarsdale, and War Reporter. His plays include The Body of an American, winner of the PEN USA Award, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, and the Horton Foote Prize, and The House in Scarsdale, winner of a PEN America Award. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actor and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter Isobel.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

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