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

by Dan O'Brien

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628973838
• ISBN13: 9781628973839
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.8"