Max Brod

The universe is grateful to Max Brod, author, friend and editor of many writers in pre-WWII Prague and best known as the disobedient executor of the work of Franz Kafka. Instead of following Kafka’s instructions to burn all his writings after his death from...

A Missed Opportunity

In 1972, | was a grad student, aged 22, and| was a script reader at the lowest rung of the ladder for the Yale Repertory Theater. | had just come to the East Coast for the first time in the fall of 1971. When I graduated in 1973, took a teaching job to support myself....

An Unlikely Artistic Couple

The New Yorker Jan 13. 2020   Tabula Rasa – Personal History by John McPhee Thornton Wilder at the Century   At Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, my editor’s name was Alfred Thorton Baker, and he was related in some way to the playwright and novelist Thornton...

Kölning

Here attached on right, is a page – probably more than twenty years old – from an application that I was about to shred a few years later for privacy’s sake – you can see I started to tear the page in two.  I read hundreds of applications for...