Hollywood vs. New York: Three Writers' Perspectives
When: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:30 pm
Where: Atrium, 10th Floor :: LBJ Library and Museum :: 2313 Red River Street
Contact: Sarah McCracken [sarah@lbjfoundation.org...]
The Future Forum and the Texas Book Festival have re-scheduled our joint panel discussion for Tuesday, February 17, 2009.
A novelist, we all assume, works alone; a screenwriter writes alone and then has to endure a bunch of Hollywood execs' "notes" on his or her work. But is that really how it works?
We've asked three novelists who are also screenwriters to reveal what it's like to work for editors in New York vs. the studios in L.A: Shauna Cross is the author of Derby Girl, a young adult novel she's adapted for Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It, slated to be released in 2009; Owen Egerton is the author of the novel Marshall Hollenzer Is Driving and the story collection How Best to Avoid Dying and the co-screenwriter of Bobbie Sue, a comedy Warner Bros. bought last fall; and Stephen Harrigan shuttles adeptly between writing novels (The Gates of the Alamo, Challenger Park, among others) and writing scripts for film and TV. We've asked novelist and sometime screenwriter Sarah Bird to moderate the panel.