{"id":1485,"date":"2017-09-07T22:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2018-02-24T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T09:31:13","slug":"howard-a-rodman-10-years-old-sad-and-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Howard A. Rodman – 10 years old, sad and lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“When I was 10 our family \u2014 my mother and I \u2014 moved from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Forest Hills. (The schools were better, my mother was told.) And I found myself the \u201cnew kid,\u201d among strangers, whose habits made little sense to me, and with odd geographies to master. I was not happy, nor was I particularly pleasant. I withdrew into my books. I gained 10 pounds. To borrow a phrase: I was lost. Then I began to find companions. Comrades. Some of them are \u2014 and this is a blessing \u2014 still in my life today: Adam Duhan, Marc Levitt, Ken Lakritz, a few others. Who helped me navigate this new and unhappy land. And then there was Walter.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

continue reading here >> Howard A. Rodman remembers his old schoolfriend Walter<\/a><\/p>\n

Howard A. Rodman is president of the Writers Guild of America West. He wrote the films Joe Gould\u2019s Secret, Savage Grace, and August, and the novel Destiny Express. He is professor and former chair of the writing division of USC\u2019s School of Cinematic Arts.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“When I was 10 our family \u2014 my mother and I \u2014 moved from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Forest Hills. (The schools were better, my mother was told.) And I found myself the \u201cnew kid,\u201d among strangers, whose habits made little sense to me, and with odd geographies to master. I was not happy, nor was I … Continue reading “Howard A. Rodman – 10 years old, sad and lost”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[204,205,37],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-beaten-track","tag-childhood-memories","tag-howard-a-rodman","tag-walter-becker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}