From The Scotsman: The creative process may be rewarding, but it's not necessarily rewarding to watch. Still, says screenwriter John Brownlow, who penned the recent Sylvia Plath bio-pic, there are ways to put a writer's life in screen and keep it filmic.

 

From Back Stage: With his usual acuity, playwright and man-about-the-theatre Jeffrey Sweet explains why The Retreat from Moscow (and other plays of its ilk) just don't do it for him: "If you've written the play correctly, you don't need to put Cliff's Notes into the text in order for your audience to know what it's about."