Marya Hornbacher

Marya Hornbacher is the Pulizer Prize-nominated author of five books. An award-winning journalist, essayist, and poet, Hornbacher's work has been published in sixteen languages. She teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago. Photo by Mark Trockman
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Articles by Author

  • Christmas Carols Past

    Editorial
    I miss my cue because I am six and hiding in a cupboard. The cupboard fits my small person precisely...
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  • The Poetics of Bradley and Joel

    Editorial
    THE CAST The Actor: Bradley Greenwald The Director: Joel Sass The Dialect Coach The Stage Manager The Intern The Thirty-Six...
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  • Winter Comes to Town

    Editorial
    Plays are like food, they feed so many souls. —Winter Miller, email Part I. The weird section common to profiles...
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  • A tale of two theater towns

    Editorial
    Chicago. Cold night. A sold-out production of Sex with Strangers, Laura Eason’s crackling, infinitesimally intimate new play about two...
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  • Full-on Fringe

    Editorial
    6:52 P.M. August 9, 2009 Bedlam, early evening. The place is nearly abandoned, chairs overturned on tables, that echoing sound...
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  • Open doors

    Editorial
    I hung up the phone, having just informed my agent that no, I would not be doing the highly commercial...
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  • Watch out

    Editorial

    “The stream and the broken pottery: what was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in...

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