The Showcase

"Most of my life has become wrapped up in stories, and I sometimes get a case of vertigo when I'm put on the spot and have to tell the unvarnished truth." The Showcase aspires to tell the truth about a particular time and place-Philadelphia in the 1980s-and to do so by unraveling the intimate lives of ordinary people, individuals coming of age in the decade when America was transformed into a different, less hopeful place than it had once been. The stories of The Showcase also consider the ...