Email Author Deborah Vankin

2002 Stories by Deborah Vankin

• The Storyteller

  published July 4, 2002

  I first met Fred Rochlin when I was sent to interview him a week before the 1999 staging of his autobiographical one-man show, Old Man in a... More >>

• Tracy Young, New Horizons

  published April 25, 2002

  It would be easy to classify Tracy Young as another of L.A.‘s myriad “writer-performer-directors,” since she’s won numerous awards and her ... More >>

• It’s the Parking, Stupid!

  published March 28, 2002

  David Freeman is the first to arrive. Wearing a blue blazer and brown fedora, the writer hunches over a rickety table in the far northeast... More >>

• The Ecstasy, the Agony

  published March 21, 2002

  There are moments -- often unremarkable, everyday moments -- when the entire history between two people, former lovers, returns in an instant:... More >>

• The Big Kiss-off

  published January 3, 2002

  “In this period of high anxiety, the [severance] letters may well contribute to the stress in the newsroom.” (Mia... More >>