Pitch

Sent something to LitHub on the strength of an exchange with Marcus -- it totally inspired me. A random intro:

2009. 

In my mid-30s, a writer with more inspiration than money. I was walking down Oakland, California's Piedmont Avenue when a printed article caught my eye under the overhang of the Piedmont Theatre. It was written by that film-criticism master Roger Ebert. "One human life, closely observed, is everyone's life," it declared. "In the particular is the universal."

At that moment, my work changed.