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Sunday, May 23, 2004
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Robert Sean LeonardThe Smoker
"Directly across the table from Douglas sat Nicole, in her impossibly black dress, watching him with her relentless blue eyes, and for the first time, Douglas honestly allowed himself to imagine what it would be like, if she were his."
--David Schickler, "The Smoker"
Twenty-first century confusion, and 1930s style, meet in this wayward love story.
David Schickler’s work as appeared in Esquire and The New Yorker, where this charming, modish, and almost old-fashioned story, "The Smoker," first appeared. It was later incorporated into his debut novel, Kissing in Manhattan, published by Dial in 2001.
The personable reader is Robert Sean Leonard, a stage veteran at a young age, with appearances in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and The Invention of Love, which garnered him a Tony Award, as well as an imaginative turn as The Music Man. In film he has appeared in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing, The Dead Poet’s Society, and most recently, The Painted House.
The Smoker, by David Schickler, read by Robert Sean Leonard.
The personable reader is Robert Sean Leonard, a stage veteran at a young age, with appearances in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and The Invention of Love, which garnered him a Tony Award, as well as an imaginative turn as The Music Man. In film he has appeared in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing, The Dead Poet’s Society, and most recently, The Painted House.
The Smoker, by David Schickler, read by Robert Sean Leonard.
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