Education
As an undergraduate, he attended the University of Vermont and then spent a year in France at the University of Nice.
(Boston real estate agent William Collins knows that his h...)
Boston real estate agent William Collins knows that his habits are slipping out of control. Due to obsessive-compulsive daily cleaning binges and a penchant for nightly online cruising for hookups, he finds his sales figures slipping despite a booming market. There's also his ongoing struggle to collect the rent from his passive-aggressive tenant and his worries about his best friend, Edward, whom he's certainly not in love with. Just as he decides to do something about his life, he meets Charlotte and Samuel, wealthy suburbanites looking for the perfect city apartment. "Happy couple," he writes in his notes. "Maybe I can learn something from them." What he ultimately discovers challenges his own assumptions about real estate, love, and desire; and what they learn from him might unravel a budding friendship, not to mention a very promising sale. Full of crackling dialogue delivered by a stellar ensemble of players, Alternatives to Sex is a smart, hilarious chronicle of life in post-traumatic, morally ambiguous America -- where the desire to do good is constantly being tripped up by the need to feel good. Right now.
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(WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOUR INSIGNIFICANT OTHER...)
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOUR INSIGNIFICANT OTHER IS BECOMING MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN YOUR SPOUSE? Richard Rossi works in HR at a Boston-based software company and prides himself on his understanding of the foibles and fictions we all use to get through the day. Too bad he’s not as good at spotting such behavior in himself. What else could explain his passionate affair with Benjamin, a very unavailable married man? Richard is also not entirely available himself—there’s Conrad, his adorable if maddening partner to contend with. But when Conrad starts spending a suspicious amount of time in Ohio, and economic uncertainty challenges Richard’s chances for promotion, he realizes his priorities might be a little skewed.
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As an undergraduate, he attended the University of Vermont and then spent a year in France at the University of Nice.
He has written six novels, including Insignificant Others. His best known novel is The Object of My Affection, which was made into a film starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was raised outside Boston and went to public schools for his education.
He worked as a travel agent for many years before moving to Brooklyn in the 1980s. There he attended adult learning centers to take some writing classes before enrolling in Columbia University"s writing program
The writer Stephen Koch gave him the idea to begin work on his first novel. His stories, articles and reviews have appeared in Gay Community News, Bay Windows, the Boston Phoenix, the New York Times Book Review, Vogue, House & Garden, Details, Vanity Fair, Harper"s, and Travel and Leisure, among others
His first novel, The Object of My Affection, was adapted in 1998 into a Hollywood feature film with the same title starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd.
A film based on his fourth, True Enough, served as the basis for a French-language film in 2007, titled Louisiana Verité ou Presque. His 1992 novel The Easy Way Out was adapted into the feature film L"Art de la fugue directed by Brice Cauvin. McCauley is an alumnus of the Ragdale Foundation.
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