Eighty-One Percent Acting
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2021-12-17
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MFA in Creative Nonfiction
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Eighty-One Percent Acting is a collection of narrative essays that explore subjects like immigration, the subtext of business, fatherhood, septuagenarian sex, mortality and more. Each essay represents a particular facet of identity, with evocative titles like “Father,” “Actor,” “Mortal,” Businessman,” “Atheist” and “Jew.” Each is a portal for exploring ideas and emotions: the Statue of Liberty once meant something; big business is all mind games played for money; how far should a father go to help his slacker son; once your body betrays you, it can never be trusted again. The author is an atypical sensibility—former managing director at international banks, working professional actor, Cuban Jew immigrant who went from Brooklyn’s tenements to some of the world’s top universities—and the essays employ the life to illuminate the topics.