100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374535674)

100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl.

This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life.

Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness: "On lice," "On sleeping in the theater," "On motherhood and stools (the furniture kind)," "Greek masks and Bell's palsy."

Author: Sarah Ruhl
ISBN-10: 0374535671
ISBN-13: 9780374535674
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/29/2015 pg. 24