NYC trip is next week!

We are leaving for NY next week to shoot interviews and things are looking good.  Salman Rushdie, Bruce Jay Friedman (acclaimed writer and screenwriter and friend of Algren), and Jan Herman, writer and friend of Algren.  We are also seeing Dan Simon, from Seven Stories Press, who publishes most of Algren's work.  Russell Banks had to push his interview back to March, when we will go back and also interview John Sayles--very exciting!

Planning the NY trip

Very excited to be planning the trip to NYC in January to shoot more interviews for Algren. Salman Rushdie is confirmed, and Russell Banks, Barry Gifford, Don DeLillo, and Willem Dafoe are possibilities, as is E. L. Doctorow. Stay tuned.

I love going to Metropolis Coffee on Granville for tea, before I pick up Max from Hebrew School. I ran into Sean Masterson, wonderful magician, and Sasha Hamon, the wonderful writer, with his wife, Teri Boyd, and children. Great place to recharge and read.

Christie Hefner

I met with Christie Hefner last night before her presentation at Columbia and we will be discussing the Algren film in greater detail in a few weeks, but she was very enthusiastic. Between Salman Rushdie two weeks ago and now this, the film is making mighty strides!