Light in August

When I interviewed him in 2000, I asked August Wilson, who has just revealed his dire, apparently terminal condition, what he would write after he was done with his 20th-century "decade" project. He said, "To go back over it and write about each decade again—I mean, there are still plays to be written." He and his family are in our prayers. I've written about this giant of the theatre here, here, and here.