Status ideals and the desire to reinvent oneself? Absolutely. As a scholar of the 1950s US, I attest that you can get a more astute and honest account of those issues from Ross Macdonald, Patricia Highsmith, Bart Spicer, and Jim Thompson than from contemporaneous works by Saul Bellow or Jack Kerouac or most of those people whose work's been anointed as Literature.
Dennis Palumbo, M.A., MFT, formerly a Hollywood screenwriter (My Favorite Year; Welcome Back, Kotter; etc.), is now a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles. Palumbo specializes in helping new and established screenwriters, directors, and novelists address creative issues, as well as those involving mid-life and career transition.
Dennis' widely-praised column, "The Writer's Life," appeared monthly for six years in Written By, the magazine of the Writers Guild of America. His work helping writers has been profiled in Premiere magazine, Variety, GQ, the Los Angeles Times and other periodicals, as well as on CNN. He presents workshops and lectures on creativity throughout the U.S. and Europe.
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Status ideals and the desire to reinvent oneself? Absolutely. As a scholar of the 1950s US, I attest that you can get a more astute and honest account of those issues from Ross Macdonald, Patricia Highsmith, Bart Spicer, and Jim Thompson than from contemporaneous works by Saul Bellow or Jack Kerouac or most of those people whose work's been anointed as Literature.
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