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Burning Days, the Life and Work of James Salter with Keith Reddin

Date & Time

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Location

The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Highway
Bridgehampton, NY
11932

Website

https://www.bridgehamptonmuseum.org/event-details/burning-days-the-life-and-work-of-james-salter-with-keith-reddin

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About

Salter, a longtime Bridgehampton
resident, was known as a writer’s writer. A novelist of the first rank, he
was a contemporary of other East End writers, among them Truman Capote, Kurt
Vonnegut, James Jones, George Plimpton. Salter was a decorated Air Force
fighter pilot in the Korean War, and had a distinguished career as novelist,
short story writer, essayist and screenwriter. He wrote what is considered
one of the best sports films of all time, Downhill Racer with Robert Redford
and Gene Hackman. Salter’s memoir Burning The Days was a bestseller. He was
also known for his masterpiece A Sport And A Pastime.

 

Presenter bio:

Keith Reddin, a playwright and educator, has a
decades long connection with the East End arts scene. Mr. Reddin has a deep
love of contemporary American literature and a special devotion to
the works of James Salter. His plays include Life and Limb, Rum
and Coke, Big Time, Nebraska, Life During
Wartime, Brutality of Fact, Almost Blue, All the Rage, But
Not For Me, Frame 312, Human Error, The Missionary
Position, Acquainted with the Night, Pierre. Adaptations
include Black Snow, The Imaginary Invalid, Heaven’s My
Destination, the one acts of Strindberg and Rear Window. His work has been
produced at Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater
Company, New York Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse,
Alley Theater, Alliance Theater, American Repertory Theater, Yale Repertory
Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, as well as in London, Berlin, and Tel
Aviv. He has also written for film and television, as well as being a professor
of playwriting at Columbia University, New York University and the New
School. Mr. Reddin lives in East Hampton with his wife Meg Gibson an actor.