Nick and Jake

Nick & Jake:

Radio interview with Jonathan and Tad Richards

Video excerpts from first staged reading of Nick & Jake with Alan Arkin, Ali MacGraw, Jonathan Richards, Tad Richards, Alison Roper: here, here, here, and here.

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Tad Richards

A preview of Nick and Jake:

In the comic tradition of Catch-22 and M*A*S*H*!
Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes, refugees from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, meet in the spring of 1953 against a backdrop of the McCarthy-driven Red Scare and CIA-driven coups abroad. Surrounded by characters recruited from the headlines of the day and the classic fiction of the first half of the 20th century, Nick and Jake do their best to save their country from itself and to learn their own lessons about life and love.

Naming Names

Alan Arkin as Jake Barnes (The Sun Also Rises): Expatriate, legendary journalist, he’s covered Europe for three decades. Once he thought of writing a novel, but never got beyond telling his story late at night to a sympathetic bartender.

Praise for Nick & Jake

"Nick & Jake is a feast of a book, packed with subtle flavors and exotic spices to satisfy the palate of the literary and historical gourmet, but just plain delicious for any reader...

1953

It was a year unlike any other. On January 20, General Dwight Eisenhower was sworn in as President in a ceremony broadcast to 21 million black-and-white television sets. The hunt for Reds was in full swing...

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