Wendy Wasserstein

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Wasserstein is such a die-hard city dweller that her idea of a retreat is to move from her Manhattan apartment to a luxury hotel across town in order to write without distraction. In plays like The Heidi Chronicles (which won both a Pulitzer and a Tony Award), The Sisters Rosensweig and An American Daughter, and her essay collection Shiksa Goddess, she examines the lives of urban professional women and their struggles to balance career and family. And although our retreat does not offer room service, she has gamely agreed to pack up her survival kit for the adventure.

Survival Kit List 1. War & Peace 2. How to Speak Italian 3. Dante - The Inferno in Italian 4. The Complete I Love Lucy 5. The Plays of Chekhov 6. The Complete Beatles 7. The Plays of Chekhov 8. The best of Elmo for my daughter


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