A Story that Happens

On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas

Drawing on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens-first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the US Air Force Academy-offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.

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