3.21.15 at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center
Reading from: his novella, The Call: a virtual parable
Fun Fact: The Call is the inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s film The Zero Theorem (and Rushin wrote the screenplay).
Pat Rushin is the author of the story collection Puzzling Through the News. His original feature-length screenplay, The Zero Theorem, was produced in 2014 by The Zanuck Company and Voltage Pictures, and directed by Terry Gilliam. His latest book, The Call: a virtual parable (Burrow Press, 2015), was the inspiration for Gilliam’s film. He has published essays, screenplays, poetry, but mostly stories in a variety of literary magazines, including The North American Review, Quarterly West, Sudden Fiction, Indiana Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Johns Hopkins Magazine, American Literary Review, Fwriction : Review, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida, where he has also (twice upon a time) served as editor of The Florida Review.