Screenwriting after Lyn Hejinian: "We are not forgetting the patience of the mad, or their love of detail."
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Capitalism & Crack
The subprime mortgage crisis shows what happens when psychological crack addicts, i.e., people who have surrendered their intellects to the insatiable demands of the profit motive, to the exclusion of almost all other values, including self-preservation, run the economy.
Insomniac. In 2001 I published a collection of short stories, VELOCITY, at Curious Rooms (Norwalk CT). A notice in the Southeast Review commented: "McNally showcases his uncanny ability to describe unique characters uniquely. He has a keen eye for minute, telling details of character, and an ear for language that enables him to succinctly get right at the heart of a character."
Tsipi Keller wrote the work is "an absolutely must read .... McNally will be read long after all of us are gone." My poem "Restocking the Time Warehouse," printed in THE ICONOCLAST, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2000. On the basis of my full-length satire DANCE WITHOUT MUSIC, I was selected as a finalist in the playwriting competition of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. Excerpt from as yet unpublished novel in February 2009 (i.e., 2009:02) edition of the online literary journal elimae. Screenplays currently being shopped--The D Train, The Murder Portfolio.
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