Sarah Ruhl at the Samuel French Theatre and Film Bookshop

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 3:00pm
Samuel French Theatre and Film Bookshop
7623 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
United States

Free and open to the public

Join playwrightand author Sarah Ruhl for a special publication-date reading and signing of Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship alongside Beth Henley. 

Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee), and The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), among many others. She is recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grant, and of, most recently, the 2016 Steinberg Prize. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Nonfiction

Letters from Max

A Poet, A Teacher, A Friendship
By 
Max Ritvo and Sarah Ruhl
A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Max Ritvo was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet in remission from pediatric cancer. Studded with poems and songs, their correspondence is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and joy.

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