{"product_id":"collected-stories-paperback-9","title":"Collected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Margulies\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As usual, Margulies holds the rich ore of his material up to the light so that it sends beams in every direction. Changing styles in feminist thought, the tangled connections between creativity and ideology, the writer's odd place in our money-centered world, the way we turn our friends into surrogate families--while always fluid and lively, the play is thick with ideas, like a stockpot of good stew.\" -Michael Feingold, \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beautifully layered. Margulies delivers a spot-on glimpse of New York's literary scene: the power of a \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e book review, or the milestone of the 92nd Y's authors series, or the significance of a little-known but much-revered lit mag like the now-defunct Grand Street. He's even better at teasing the sense of betrayal that can dissolve creative friendships...the ethics of friendship and fiction smack into each other.\" -Lisa Kennedy, \u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e] digs into its engaging tale of aesthetics and ethics with intelligence and sharp, literate humor....Mr. Margulies has found fertile material in the struggles of the creative classes to reconcile the demands of ambition with the exigencies of life.\" -\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This provocative piece of theater serves as a timely reminder that we are defined by our feelings and memories -- and such precious thoughts are sacred.\" -Matthew J. Palm, \u003ci\u003eOrlando Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e explores the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from the biographical material of another person's life-particularly when that other person is also a writer. Meditating upon the recent, real-life conflict between poet Stephen Spender and novelist David Leavitt, Margulies has created two of the most vivid and moving fictional characters of his career: Ruth Steiner, an aging, highly regarded author who never wrote about her youthful affair with real-life poet Delmore Schwartz, and Lisa Morrison, a student of Steiner's who, after publishing a much-ballyhooed first short-story collection under Steiner's direction, follows up with a novel that draws upon the Schwartz affair. The result is charged drama with the depth and weight of the finest prose fiction. Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best New Play. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Margulies\u003c\/b\u003e received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for \u003ci\u003eDinner with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e. The play received numerous awards, including the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, the Dramatists Guild\/Hull-Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination, and has been produced all over the United States and around the world. In addition to his adaptation of \u003ci\u003eGod of Vengeance\u003c\/i\u003e, his many plays include \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Country House, Sight Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Model Apartment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Loman Family Picnic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhat's Wrong with This Picture?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime Stands Still\u003c\/i\u003e. Mr. Margulies currently lives with his wife and their son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald Margulies's other plays include Collected Stories, The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen and Dinner with Friends, for which he was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 85\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.28 x 5.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42167387259015,"sku":"9781559361521","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e83e2d675022949d974e19db3419d0b7.webp?v=1733327285","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/collected-stories-paperback-9","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}