Recently, actors who are also writers helped Peter Blauner launch his novel “Sunrise Highway”[1] — about the hunt for a Long Island serial killer — at the Mysterious Bookshop in Tribeca.
Blauner, author of eight other books, knows actors because he has also written episodes of “Law & Order: SVU” and “Blue Bloods.”
David Duchovny, the “Californication” star and author of “Miss Subways,” said, “Acting is so collaborative that part of me does like to be alone and work on my own. I get up before sunrise and write for a few hours.”
Eric Bogosian, now on “Billions” and “Succession,” wrote Pulitzer Prize-nominated play “Talk Radio” and “Operation Nemesis,” about the assassins who avenged the Armenian genocide.
“I have to write every day or I go nuts,” Bogosian said. “It’s my therapy. If I don’t write, my brain explodes.”
Also at the “Sunrise Highway” launch in Tribeca, Warren Leight was celebrating NBC’s green light for “Law & Order: Hate Crimes,” which he will produce with Dick Wolf and shoot in New York. The Queens native said, “The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is the best in the country.”
References
- ^ “Sunrise Highway” (www.amazon.com)