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.

Author: Dan O'Brien
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781628973839