The Drama Book Shop will welcome Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg (The Assembled Parties, Take Me Out, Three Days Of Rain) for a discussion and signing celebrating his new essay collection, Rules For Others To Live By, on Monday, October 3rd, 2016 at 5:00pm. The event is free to the public, but priority admission is granted to those who purchases copies of the collection.
Tony Award-winning playwright
Richard Greenberg is something of a hermit, but it seems to be working out for him. When you spend so much of your time inside making up stories about fictional characters, he says, it sharpens your sensitivity to what goes on when you're outside interacting with reality--and all of the bizarre, unpredictable, and even unimaginable people beyond one's front door. In Rules for Others to Live By, Greenbergshares stories from his life, observations from two decades of residence on a three-block stretch of New York City, and musings from his brilliant, if not a little unusual, mind. Spanning a range of conversational topics from friendship to writing, urban life to visiting parents, health crises to hypochondria and other paranoid tendencies, Greenberg's distinct and hilarious voice articulates our own mild obsessions and the idiosyncrasies we can only hope will go unnoticed in a crowd.
Mr. Greenberg has written two dozen plays, including the Tony Award-winning Take Me Out, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, as was his play Three Days of Rain. He is the winner of Newsday's
George Oppenheimer Award for Best New Playwright and the PEN/
Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career. He lives in New York City.
The Tony Award-winning Drama Book Shop, now celebrating its 99th year in business, is located at 250 West 40th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. For more information on this and over events, visit
www.dramabookshop.com.
Photo Credit: Henry DiRocco
