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

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.

© 2021 Dalkey Archive Press (eBook): 9781628974089

Fecha de lanzamiento

eBook: 14 de septiembre de 2021