Intro from Jay Allison: This piece comes from the Transom Story Workshop Spring 2014. The students came from all over to spend two months with us on Cape Cod. Rob Rosenthal and Audrey Quinn led the class and were joined by all of us at Transom, plus Robert Krulwich, Nancy Updike, and a lot of other great producers who happened by. Check out their work. If these are beginners, look out.
About “Leaving Los Angeles”
I came to this topic for my final piece because I wanted to do something on a topic I related to and that built upon work I was already doing — in this case some essays I was writing, plus my podcast “Not Living the Dream” where I tell stories of my life in Hollywood trying to get a career off the ground…and failing. I figured it would have a lot of heart; I’d talk to people around the Cape who were struggling to get by, dealing with…
