"These are great noir stories, with a very intelligent self-awareness that makes them existentially perplexing and entertaining at the same time. Kind of a guilty pleasure. Love the wry darkness." -Susan Smith Nash, author of "The Adventures of Tinguely Querer"

Author L. Shapley Bassen brings together a new and fresh collection of shorts and scripts. As a finalist for the 2011 Flannery O'connor award and native New Yorker, Bassen gives us theatre folk, 1987, and life in the Big Apple. She is winner of the 2009 APP Drama Prize and Mary Rhinehart Fellowship. Contents SHOWFOLK A year in the life of Arthur Hopewell, a young playwright at a regional theater, The Green Door. He dreams of traveling the world, but magic, mayhem, and mistaken identity intervene, onstage and off. In the comic tradition of 'Michael Tolliver Lives' and 'Bridget Jones's Diary'...