Author Julie Gilbert Discusses the Writing of Her New Book ‘Giant Love’
Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
John McCaffrey is a prolific writer and creative writing teacher who lives in Wainscott. Durell Godfrey In the earliest days of his writing career, John McCaffrey of Wainscott wasn’t composing short stories or chapters in a novel. He was writing cheeky inscriptions in classmates’ yearbooks in Rochester, where he grew up, and scrawling impromptu poems on bar napkins for friends during his college days at Villanova University. It would still be years before he actually took a creative writing course. By the time he finally signed up for an eight-week adult education program at the 63rd Street Y in New York City, he’d been quietly writing what he described as “little stories for myself.” He’d also been trying to build a copywriting career “like Dick Van Dyke,” he said, “but that didn’t work out.” At the end of that writing course at the Y, the teacher encouraged him to keep writing. “She came to me and said, ‘I think you have a little something,’ ” Mr. McCaffrey recalled. So he kept writing. He began studying it formally as a graduate student at City College of New York, taking night classes while working as a grant writer during the day. Fast-forward to today: Mr. McCaffrey is the author of three short story collections, including “Two Syllable Men” in 2016, and a dystopian novel published in 2013, “The Book of Ash.” He is also a teacher of online creative writing courses as an adjunct professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Then, fast-forward a bit more to a date that hasn’t even happened yet: Dec. 14 at LTV Studios in Wainscott. For the Playwrights Theatre of East Hampton, Mr. McCaffrey and a collaborator, Jack Gwaltney, will present an original play based on the classic Charles Dickens protagonist. Its title: “Scrooge . . . The Relapse,” in turn based on a short story called “Scrooge in Psychotherapy” that Mr. McCaffrey wrote a few years back. An earlier version of the play was presented in 2018 at Guild Hall. Not unlike Gregory Maguire’s treatment of L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West, which […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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