"Dinner With Friends"

I've been slow with putting new books in the sidebar.  I have a few in the queue.  Today I read Donald Margulies's play, "Dinner With Friends," which was also a movie I haven't seen.  The play is terrific.  Margulies wrote "Brooklyn Boy," which I loved, so I decided to pick this one up from the library.  It's awesome.  Margulies articulates inner feelings through dialogue so amazingly well.  His characters have inner lives that they're able to express through dialogue.  He's so great at this.  I want to read everything he's written, and I will, one by one.  Read Brooklyn Boy if you're only going to read one of the two plays, but this one's awfully rewarding too.  I love discovering new writers I can be obsessed with and want to read everything they write.  (In case you're just tuning in and want some more writers I'll read anything by -- off the top of my head -- David Shields, Paul Collins, Bill Bryson, Anne Lamott.  To qualify for this list, I have to have actually read everything they've written, or, in the case of Lamott and Shields, all of their non-fiction... awesome awesome awesome.  Go read.  If you're a baseball fan, add Rob Neyer to the list and pick up his (e-)book about a year at Fenway Park that no one liked except for me.)