Unabridged Bookstore
3251 N Broadway St.
Chicago, IL 60657
United States
Free and open to the public
Unabridged Bookstore will host Sarah Ruhl (Letters from Max) in conversation with director Jessica Thebus with a Q&A and booksigning to follow the discussion. LEARN MORE
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.
Studded with poems and songs, this correspondence is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and joy.