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November 17th, 2009

The Rumpus Interview with Robert McKee

Robert McKee is best known to the world in two ways: as the guy who teaches the popular STORY seminar in Los Angeles and around the world to would-be screenwriters, and as the character in the film Adaptation who teaches a popular screenwriting seminar at which the Charlie Kaufman character is berated after standing up and asking tentatively and desperately, “Sir, what if a writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens? Where people don’t change?” …more

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Sheila Heti lives in Toronto, where she often collaborates with her friends. She is the author of two books: Ticknor (FSG) and The Middle Stories (McSweeney's Books). Her lecture series, Trampoline Hall, has been running monthly since December 2001, and her latest web project were the blogs I Dream of Hillary and I Dream of Barack. She often conducts interviews for The Believer. Her website is www.sheilaheti.net

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