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Category: Posts by Alan

Thank you, Donald

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Lifeline

I lost a special friend (or perhaps a quirky uncle) with the passing of Donald Westlake yesterday. I wish I were speaking of a literal friendship. It would have been a wonderful takeaway from my experience in adapting his novel Trust Me on This for our stage in 2003. But the truth is we met […]

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