Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger than Life, excerpted in the New York Times, and the co-author of Acting for Young Actors. Her essays have most recently appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, the Water~Stone Review, AGNI, Brevity, and the Coachella Review. She serves as core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainer Writing Workshop, and the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California. Though Dinah regularly reviews books for the L.A. Times, she fears the section will soon go the way of white tennis balls, telephone booths, tape recorders, walkie talkies, diaper pins, housecalls, carbon paper, and the milk man; all, to her knowledge, pretty much defunct.