Other Works
Please Stop Talking I have to use the Bathroom
by Lisa Lutz, originally published in Friction Magazine (December 2, 2002)
Some people never stop talking, and some people, Lisa Lutz among them, just can't get away from these ramblers to find some peace and quiet. Lutz has "always felt powerless when confronted by someone who demanded an audience... always felt an inexplicable need to be that audience." The author's life has been filled with a talkative high-school teaching ex-nun, an aspiring poet coworker who wouldn't stop spewing bad lamentations, and a communicative painter roommate wishing for endless chats. Lutz endured this need for communication until reaching the breaking point one night, when she told the roommate that no, she did not like her art or her unstoppable chatter. And by saying she did not enjoy the paintings, it seems that Lutz expressed everything she had been holding in, as soon the art came down and the roommate decided to move out; "The bare walls providing a kind of calm I cannot describe." (Erica Sagrans, Utne). Read right here.
Confessions of a Hollywood sellout
by Lisa Lutz, published on Salon.com (February 2005)
There is no self-help group out there for a screenwriter who wasted a decade of her life rewriting a straight-to-video mob farce. Read on Salon.com.
Plan B
Greg Yaitanes, director; Lisa Lutz, writer (2001)
The movie Variety calls “torturously unfunny." Here's a synopsis of the plot, courtesy of Amazon.com: A meek bookkeeper, and widow of a New York Mob victim, must become the hit man for the Mob boss in order to pay back her husband's debt. Instead of carrying out the deeds, she drives each of her proposed victims down to Florida to hide at her estranged brother's house. The boss gets wind that the victims may not be dead, and pays a visit to Florida, where he uncovers her flimsy plan and the hilarity ensues. Buy on Amazon.com or rent from Netflix.