Dealing With The Secret Government Aug 28, 2009
"Murder," playwright Lillian Hellman wrote in a New York Times op-ed. "We didn't think of ourselves that way once upon a time.". (CBS News)
Silliman considers the business of the MFA Aug 13, 2009
Even a school without a writing program, like Berkeley, had on its faculty at the time Josephine Miles, Tom Parkinson, Ron Loewinsohn, David Henderson, Lillian Hellman, Denise Levertov, Richard Tillinghast, James Tate, Robin Magown & Robert Grenier. After Levertov left Berkeley for Tufts, she was followed by Grenier, who was in turn followed by Kenneth Irby, a grad student at Berkeley. (Harper's Magazine)
A writer in full, fiercely political with a life of high drama Jul 19, 2009
Unlike his talented pal Elia Kazan, the brilliant director forced to testify before HUAC five years earlier, but like feisty playwright Lillian Hellman, Miller refused to reveal the names of friends who had attended meetings and events with him. Although sentenced to 30 days in prison and a $500 fine, that judgment was eventually reversed by the US Court of Appeals. (Boston Globe)
African-American Theatre Festival focuses on lives of women, girls May 29, 2009
This year's fest features four productions: "Mother G," by Robert Johnson; "The Children's Hour," by Lillian Hellman; and two one-act plays by Parker, "Feathers on My Arms . . . Zora Neale Flying High" and "Bess the Brave," which run in tandem. "Mother G" is about a courageous woman who stands up to her pastor to stop an injustice within her church, based on a true story from 1963. (Boston Globe)
Rumour got 'Fight Club' author ruminating May 28, 2009
Palahniuk: There's a book for next year that's close to done called "Tell-All." I'd gone to these publishing dinners last summer in New York and these sort of old publishing dinosaurs were complaining about how when they'd been really young, they'd been asked to do all this seemingly useless research about what time a train would arrive in Berlin in the 1930s, and they later found that everything they had researched was used by Lillian Hellman in her biography ... And so I thought it would just... (Honolulu Advertiser)
