Sat PM Breakout #2: ON WRITING TV SERIES VS WRITING FICTION

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Crime novelist and TV writer/producer DENNIS LEHANE (TV: Black Bird, The Outsider, Mr. Mercedes; Books: Small Mercies, Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island) will talk to fellow novelist and screenwriter JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ about how he approaches writing books vs TV scripts, his advice for writing true crime stories, as well as his journey developing his latest show, the AppleTV+ limited series Black Bird. 

July 20
12:30 pm — 1:30 pm

Tent C

Dennis Lehane, John Burnham Schwartz

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