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“I Am America’s Only Thai-American Horror Playwright” (opens the original)
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This conversation comes from a series of interviews I conducted in the mid-2010s with working artists — the middle-class artists nobody writes about, the ones so deeply entrenched in reality they can do your taxes for you. I’ve been in the States so a second interview for ya’ll… next week will be more “regular” NN content. But for now listen to these wise words as Prince has built a decades-long playwriting career with no agent, doing all the footwork himself — and a parallel life teaching that
Working Artist Interview with Quark from Star Trek (opens the original)
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This conversation comes from a series of interviews I conducted in the mid-2010s with working artists — the middle-class artists nobody writes about, the ones so deeply entrenched in reality they can do your taxes for you. Kitty and Armin are two of the most seasoned voices in the whole book: decades in the theater, a full run of network television, a marriage, and between them a working knowledge of the actor’s life — craft, unions, agents, money — that almost nobody hands down in plain languag
BOOK REVIEW: “How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination” by Eugene Nulman (opens the original)
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Goodbye Dolly (and what we can learn from her writing) (opens the original)
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VACATION!!! (Well, not this...) (opens the original)
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Rest, my dears. My loves. Rest. I’ll be back soon…<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="480" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2ygu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
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