![]() ![]() "Chance," she says, "Can be more reliable than thinking about things and planning." The image also seems to embody an art that, like Fornes's little tree, emerges from seeming chaos as a miracle of selection that is the essence of life as she experiences it. An isolated snapshot, apart from the world around it, the tree stands as a gallant symbol of life amid the rains. Then the picture comes into focus and I see it through the eyes of the playwright. But there it is: a spindly little maple, leaning at a rakish angle toward one of the area's shabby-genteel apartment buildings. It takes me a moment to find the tree because of the surrounding tangle of people, traffic, trash cans, and buildings. You like so much the way that little tree looks beside that house and so you draw it."(1) Maria Irene Fornes indicates a tree just visible from the window of the small Greenwich Village cafe where we sit over coffee. I was a painter, but it's the same thing. "I didn't think I was a playwright before I started writing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I wanted to read about the ice-cream truck.”) He often discloses that he never read a book from beginning to end until he was seventeen: it was Richard Wright’s landmark “ Black Boy,” from 1945, which snared him with its shocking opening (a little boy about to burn down his grandmother’s house) and its depiction of a childhood he recognized. (“Absolutely not,” his response began, “and here is why we have every reason to be proud, despite the pain.”) Another story features his aunt, who tried in vain to interest eight-year-old Jason in classic books like “Treasure Island,” “Little Women,” and “Moby-Dick.” (The bygone worlds of these books “didn’t make any sense,” according to Reynolds. One is about the Black girl who asked Reynolds, who is also Black, if he ever wished that his skin were a different color. 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A friend helped her find new places to stay along the way: houseboats, an abandoned mansion, a hippie commune on a farm outside Amsterdam. “At the time, so far as I knew, I was the only person this had ever happened to,” Dworkin writes in a haunting 1995 essay called “My Life as a Writer.” After two and a half years of beatings, rape, and other physical attacks, she fled for good. ![]() Domestic violence had not been a part of Dworkin’s childhood, and she knew nothing about it. The first incident seemed like it must have been some kind of mistake. Soon after they married he began beating her. ![]() She had married at twenty-two, to a fellow New Left countercultural activist from the Netherlands, and moved to Amsterdam to live with him. Andrea Dworkin found feminism in 1971, while she was on the run from her violent ex-husband, sleeping on friends’ floors and moving frequently to evade his stalking. ![]() |