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» Introduction

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"Production's 'dubious advantage': Lesescenarios, closet drama, and the (screen)writer's riposte" / Quimby Melton
The largely overlooked Lesescenario, or "closet screenplay," belongs to a tradition of "readerly" performance literature that can help screenwriters subvert their marginalization as writers and the marginalization of their texts as literary objects.

» Interview

w/ Caitlin McCarthy / Screenwriter, Wonder Drug and Resistance
"'The Great American Novel' was the dream of the 20th Century. In the 21st Century, the dream appears to be 'The Great American Screenplay.'"

» Narrative

"1001 Film Scenarios — Selections from a Proposed Chapbook" / Richard Kostelanetz
chapbook: "a small book or pamphlet of popular tales, ballads, etc., formerly hawked about by chapmen; a small book or pamphlet, often of poetry."

"Nora and Me (and Food)" / Marsha McCreadie
"The instant I said 'No thank you' I knew my goose was cooked. When Nora Ephron offered me some chicken cooked by her own hands, right on the cusp of my interview with her, my middle class suburban girl response was to politely decline."

» Media

Asemic Paintings & Comics / images / Satu Kaikkonen
"Asemic texts, as it were, serve as a projection of humanity's desire to reconnect with the mythological root of all languages and, by extension, one another."

Graffiti Gallery / images / Filippo Soevv
Filippo Soevv's graffiti (master)pieces utilize -- and, in fact, often merge -- intricate, jumbled word forms and commentary-charged murals.

» Reviews & Responses

Report from the Fourth Annual Screenwriters Festival, Cheltenham, UK / Andrew Horton
Over 450 participants and more than 40 speakers participated in this year's festival which was held on the campus of Cheltenham's Ladies College.

selections from Threshold / Allison Urban
June 2009 art installation at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.