Reading from His Story “Screenwriter”

An Audio Reading

Charlie read at the Narrative Night in Seattle in November 2006 from “Screenwriter,” a short story in which a disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter finds himself in the psychiatric ward of a New York City hospital, sharing cigarettes with a troubled young ballerina. The piece was first published in The New Yorker and was later included in The Best American Short Stories 2004.

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