Wallace Shawn and Rachel Kushner: A Conversation

Join authors Wallace Shawn and Rachel Kushner for a conversation on the occasion of the launch of the paperback edition of Night Thoughts.
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Wallace Shawn and Rachel Kushner in conversation on the occasion of the launch of the paperback edition of Night Thoughts: An Essay, Shawn's probing, honest, and self-critical take on civilization and its discontents.

In a gloomy hotel room, after reading compulsively about murders, Shawn tries to sleep but is troubled by meandering thoughts and memories that follow one another in an apparently random chain. Ultimately a point of view begins to emerge. In a world dominated by privileged killers, how should we live? What world do we want?
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Wallace Shawn is an Obie Award–winning playwright and a noted stage and screen actor. His plays The Designated Mourner and Marie and Bruce have been produced as films, as has his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Master Builder. He is co-author of the movie "My Dinner with André" and the author of the plays The Fever, The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors, as well as the nonfiction books Essays (featuring the essay “Why I Call Myself a Socialist”) and Night Thoughts (Haymarket Books). His latest play, Evening at the Talk House, premiered at the Socialism conference in Chicago and was performed at The National Theatre in London and The New Group in New York. His plays The Designated Mourner and Grasses of a Thousand Colors will soon be available as multipart podcasts.

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[peterdunn]

I noticed how carefully he listened to RK and how specific and sophisticated and complex his answers were. This guy is a National Monument. That the guy who wrote and starred in the Designated Mourner is the same guy who has starred until recently in Young Sheldon and Clueless. His first appearance in film - as Diane Keaten's ex- boyfriend in Annie Hall-

[jackwoods]

"Heh Heh Heh...Your negotiating skills are not bad for a Hu Mon"...

[simiancinema]

Greatness of Wallace Shawn = what?"