A new novel by Richard Dresser
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“Oh God. It rings true.”
— Roy Blount Jr
“Richard Dresser’s It Happened Here is the witty, resonant story we need right now.”
— Betsy West
“This book is as astonishing as it is extraordinary”
— Lewis Black
“a heartbreaking, hilarious tale of a dysfunctional family as screwed up as yours.”
— Jay Tarses
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Richard Dresser
Richard Dresser is an award-winning playwright whose seventeen published plays have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, in leading regional theaters, and all over Europe. His first novel, IT HAPPENED HERE, the saga of an American family between the years 2019 and 2035, deals with life under a totalitarian regime when you still have Netflix and two-day free shipping. It will be released in September, with plenty of time to tilt the election. He teaches screenwriting in the Columbia University graduate Film School and is President of the Writers Guild Initiative, which does writing workshops all over the country, with a mission of giving a voice to populations not being heard.
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Kevin Kelly of the Boston Globe called Dresser “a ferocious playwright…who writes with a headlong intensity and a sense of pervasive mystery.”
The LA Times said, “Dresser’s dialogue crackles like gunfire in a shooting gallery.”
John Simon in New York Magazine said, “Below the Belt is a terribly serious play that keeps you steadily laughing; properly understood, it should also make you weep.”