D.Z. Stone
D.Z. Stone, a New York–based author, is working with documentarian Stacey Cahn on the make-you-smile, sometimes wild, and deeply religious life, times, and patients of prosthodontist Dr. Dean Vafiadis.
Two artistic collaborators discuss their latest film, Blue Moon, about the end of the creative partnership between songwriters Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers. Kaplow and Linklater chose to center the plot on the opening night of Oklahoma!
How does a two-person small press operating in a small apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side achieve so much success so quickly? I asked Wish and Coffey about that, and about other aspects of Coolest American Stories that distinguish it from other nationally distributed short story anthologies, such as why they respond to submissions the way they do, and how working together on Coolest has impacted their marriage.
