Friday, August 19th, 2011
Two unmissable guests for you tonight on LITOPIA AFTER DARK: the wise and resourceful Dr. Susan O’Doherty, the well-known New York psychiatrist who specializes in treating writers (ask her about writers block!). Dr. Sue will be open to questions from the chatroom about any writer-related issues you’d like to raise.
And acclaimed playwright Laura Harrington – she teaches playwriting at MIT, and her plays and musicals have won many awards and brilliant reviews. Her first book, Alice Bliss, has just been published – and the theme couldn’t be more topical:
Alice Bliss is fifteen. She’s smart, funny, and clever. Not afraid to stand up for the things she believes in. She also idolises her father and, when he leaves home to fight a war she doesn’t believe in, Alice is distraught. She and her mother negotiate his absence as best they can — waiting impatiently for his letters, throwing themselves into school and work respectively, bickering intermittently and, in Alice’s case, falling for the boy next door — but then they’re told that he’s missing in action and have to face up to the fact that he may never return.
So a cracking good show tonight – but only if you turn up in the chatroom and take part!
The chat room starts to fill up from 7:30pm UK time – 2:30pm Eastern time – and recording starts at approx 8pm UK / 3pm EST. Remember – there are just 25 seats, so join the chat room early!