Genesys: EULA For The Universe
“Hands” graphic Copyright © 2008 by David Day. Excerpted from Rapture For The Geeks, by Richard Dooling. Genesys: EULA For The Universe Copyright © 2008 Richard Dooling – All Rights Reserved In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Software and hardware He created them. The earth was […]
Would My Book Make A Good Movie?
Books and movies are two different languages. To compare the two is like comparing pottery and stained glass. –Russel Banks Probably half the movies made in Hollywood are adaptations of stories that originally appeared as novels, nonfiction books, comic books, graphic novels, short stories, plays, poems, or what have you. […]
Diary of an Immortal Man
Short Fiction by Richard Dooling Diary Of An Immortal Man was a cover story for Esquire Magazine and was nominated for a National Magazine Award. The full text appears online at Kurzweil AI. Diary Of An Immortal Man is kinky science fiction and black comedy, inspired in part by Ray […]
Nebraska’s Nostalgia Trap
For all of today’s up-to-the-second economic analysis, how are Americans actually doing? The New York Times Op-Ed page asked writers to provide snapshots of their local economies over the course of the year. Here is Richard Dooling’s second dispatch on the state of the economy in Nebraska: Nebraska’s Nostalgia Trap. […]
Revenge of the Cornhuskers
For all of today’s up-to-the-second economic analysis, how are Americans actually doing? The New York Times Op-Ed page asked writers to provide snapshots of their local economies over the course of the year. Richard Dooling’s first economic postcard from Omaha: Revenge of the Cornhuskers, published Sunday, 2 October 2005.
User Interfaces Should Teach, Not Hide
Here’s a fresh look at the age-old tension between those who prefer the Command Line Interface (CLI) to the Graphical User Interface (GUI), by way of an example from my favorite text editor, Vim 7.0. Writing in the Free Software Magazine, Terry Hancock argues that user interfaces should teach, not […]
Good Books On Screenwriting
“In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.” –Frank Deford On Screenwriting The best resource for screenwriters seeking “official information” about Hollywood is the Writers’ Guild Of America website. If you want inside information about how writers survive in the business, you are in luck. A […]
Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital
Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital Richard Dooling served as producer, writer, and medical consultant for Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment has released Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital on DVD. Order your copy of Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital from Amazon. For more information visit Stephen King’s Official Website. For a […]
The Journals of Eleanor Druse
A Novel by Richard Dooling Read the first chapter of The Journals of Eleanor Druse at Amazon. I wrote this book as a tie-in to the Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital project. Eleanor Druse, inspired by the original character from Lars Von Trier’s mini-series and played by Diane Ladd in our […]
Bet Your Life
A Novel by Richard Dooling New York Times Notable Book of 2002 Read the first chapter of Bet Your Life at the New York Times site. Set in Omaha, Nebraska, the author’s hometown, Bet Your Life turns the death of Lenny Stillmach–a young insurance investigator, a scam buster who may […]
Bush Pigs
Short Fiction by Richard Dooling Bush Pigs, a short story by Richard Dooling, is now available on an audio CD-ROM from Amazon. Originally published in The New Yorker, Bush Pigs is a cult favorite of returned Peace Corps volunteers, or anyone else suffering from “reverse culture shock.” Actor Mark Nelson […]
Brain Storm, a novel
Read Chapter One of Brain Storm New York Times Notable Book of 1998 Amazon Hot 100 Bestseller Review Excerpts “Dooling’s new book is a brilliant concoction, flashing with comedic and intellectual energy . . . . an inspired piece of work, a caustically funny, antic diatribe with a tightly woven […]
Critical Care: The Movie
Critical Care, The Movie Sidney Lumet (Network, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict) and producer/writer Steven Schartz adapted Richard Dooling’s first novel, Critical Care, into a darkly funny (funnily dark?) medical satire starring James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Albert Brooks, Helen Mirren, and Anne Bancroft. If you blinked you missed it in […]
White Man’s Grave, a novel
Praise For White Man’s Grave 1994 National Book Award Finalist New York Times Notable Book of 1994 Review Excerpts “A bravura display of satire . . . Dooling evokes the humane checks and balances of a deep world: the logic, you might say, of its magic.”– Richard Eder, L.A. Times. […]
Critical Care, a novel
Review Excerpts “A sardonic, often harrowing look at the American way of life-support.”–Kirkus Reviews “A bitter and disturbing, though often very funny, first novel with a sensibility that Dr. Strangelove fans will recognize.” — Beryl Benderly, Washington Post Book World. “A scathingly funny black comedy … almost impossible to put […]