Introduction (excerpt) My manuscript work is a draft of the first four chapters (or "scenes") of a novel called Terror, Avant-garde. In these scenes, Thérèse Genevieve Alarie, a 65-year old former Off-Off Broadway actor, leaves her apartment for the first time in three years to attend a playwrighting workshop at a small community theatre in Passaic. Her intention is to reunite with the playwright Darrell Hawke (who she believes wrote a life-changing play for and about...