Literature

How Margulies Mined A Hit

Donald Margulies (Paul Bass photo)

Donald Margulies (Paul Bass photo)

September 15, 2015 - Donald Margulies knew right away that Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself , a book about five days’ worth of conversations between Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky and novelist David Foster Wallace, contained a story that he wanted to tell.

A Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and Theater Studies professor with years of experience writing movie screenplays for hire, Margulies saw in this book two characters with unique voices, powerful anxieties, and a complex relationship predicated on admiration and mistrust.

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An Epic Night Of Short Stories

Bennett Lovett-Graff (Thomas Breen photo)

Bennett Lovett-Graff (Thomas Breen photo)

February 16, 2015 - On Thursday night, Bennett Lovett-Graff, George Kulp, and J. Kevin Smith smuggled two epic poems into the Institute Library, disguised as 20th-century American short stories.

The two stories, Harlan Ellison’s “Along the Scenic Route” (1975) and John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” (1964), were the featured works in February’s installment of Listen Here!, one of the Chapel Street upstairs haunt’s several now-regular events.

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