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Guest: Alan Hruska Alan Hruska writes and directs films and plays, and is a novelist and book publisher. Alan’s first film, Nola, released by Samuel Goldwyn in 2003, was chosen the next year in a Best of Tribeca program (sponsored by The Tribeca Film Festival, Vanity Fair and MTV) for presentation to the troops in Kuwait and Qatar. His second film, The Warrior Class, premiered in the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2006 and is being distributed by Echo Bridge. Reunion, his third film, was released in New York in 2009. All three films ran on the cable television network, Showtime, and are now available for streaming on various internet outlets. His fourth film, The Man On Her Mind, will be released later this year. Alan was also Associate Executive Producer of the documentary, Trumbo, Co-Producer of the film, Handsome Harry, and Executive Producer of the soon to be released comedy, Tiger Lily Road. Alan began his theatrical life in 2005 by directing an off-Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot, developed at the Actors Studio The New York Times called Hruska’s Godot “a pleasure,” and The New York Post, “an admirable production” having “just the right mixture of pathos and comic bluster.” Alan’s own play, New House Under Construction, which he also directed, ran at the 59 E 59 Theaters in 2008-09. The Man On Her Mind, a play he wrote directed by Bruce Guthrie, was produced in 2013 at the Charing Cross Theatre in London. In 1984, Doubleday published Alan’s first novel, Borrowed Time. The following year, Alan co-founded the New York book publishing company, Soho Press, of which Alan is still Chairman. In 2011, Alan’s second novel, Wrong Man Running, was published in the U.K. and the U.S.A. by the British publisher, Severn House, and worldwide by Thomas & Mercer (for a time last year, it was the number one selling e-book in the U.K.). His third novel, Pardon The Ravens, will be published in February 2015 by Prospect Park Books. In an earlier life, Alan was a trial lawyer, @ Cravath, Swaine & Moore as a tax lawyer. representing many individuals and institutions, public and private. He was also president of several professional organizations and a member of various commissions and community boards. He is now a director of the Lark Play Development Center in New York and a member of the Actors Studio, Playwrights and Directors Unit. THE BOOK: “Pardon The Ravens” Pardon the Ravens is a fast-paced legal thriller from the author of Wrong Man Running and the writer and director of films, Nola, The Warrior Class, Reunion, and The Man on Her Mind. Alan Hruska tells the gripping story of what happens when a man lets his heart get in the way of his business affairs--and the consequences of crossing the man who controls organized crime in New York City during the Mad Men era. Gifted young lawyer Alec Brno is given the chance of a lifetime to try a huge fraud case making international headlines--a case that might make him partner in a prestigious law firm. But he risks it all when he falls for an alluring young woman whose enraged husband is a sadistic Mafia don--and the criminal mastermind behind Alec's case. Suddenly, Alec finds himself caught between saving the woman he's fallen for, pleasing the partners of his firm--and trying not to get killed in the process. This riveting ride blasts through Wall Street, the city's most dangerous neighborhoods and worlds where sex, drugs and unsolved murders hide behind every facade. PARDON THE RAVENS will grab you and not let go until the last page.
Guest: Neil Swidey Neil Swidey is the author of "Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness" (Crown 2014), which has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. He is also author of "The Assist," a Boston Globe bestseller and one of The Washington Post's best books of the year, and a co-author of the New York Times bestselling "Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy." A staff writer for The Boston Globe Magazine, Swidey teaches journalism at Tufts University and has been a contributing analyst for NBC News. He has twice won the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society for Professional Journalists and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award. His work has been featured in "The Best American Science Writing," "The Best American Crime Writing," and "The Best American Political Writing." He lives outside Boston with his wife and three daughters. THE BOOK: “Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness” The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice. Jack Girardi, Partner at Girardi Keese, is one of America's Finest Trial Lawyers and our Co-Host, as always, brings out the most important key elements to the success of today's guests. He and his firm have been dedicated to working hard and getting the best possible recovery for its clients. Girardi Keese's mission is to provide aggressive representation of individuals and businesses who have been injured in sous way, whether by physical harm, property damage, damage to business, or damage to economic interests. Girardi & Keese has two offices in California: Downtown Los Angeles and San Bernardino. www.girardikeese.com Hosted by Steve Murphy
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