Kyle Alm

1837 days ago

Were you a good salesman?

MAMET

No, I was terrible. I kept identifying with the people on the other end, which is something you really can’t do.

The Art of Theater No. 11

theparisreview.org

David Alan Mamet grew up in a Jewish neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, just a few blocks from Lake Michigan. His father was a labor lawyer, his mother a schoolteacher; both sides of the family came to Chicago in the 1920s, part of the city’s last wave of central European immigrants.