Heidi Diehl is the author of the novel Lifelines as well as work published in Indiana Review, Joyland, Electric Literature, Mississippi Review, Witness, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Marble House Project, Monson Arts, Norton Island, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and VCCA, she is a lecturer at Brooklyn College, CUNY.
In the old days, these convention events had been scripted, safe. Now the network still had to maintain the FCC’s decency standards despite the president’s profane speeches and ad lib remarks. Radical bluntness, he called it.
