Screenwriter Howard A. Rodman’s films include Savage Grace, August, and Joe Gould’s Secret.His original screenplay F. was selected by Premiere as one of Hollywood’s Ten Best Unproduced Screenplays.He has worked with David Lynch, John McTiernan, Rodrigo Garcia, Clive Barker, Peter Bogdanovich, Maurice Sendak, Michael Jackson, and Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh repaid the favor by naming the sleaziest characters in The Underneath and Traffic “Mr. Rodman.”Rodman’s novel, Destiny Express, set in the pre-war German film community, was characterized by Thomas Pynchon as “daringly imagined, darkly romantic—a moral thriller.” Starting as editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun, Rodman has published in venues including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, and the Village Voice.He is on the board of the Writers Guild of America, West, an artistic director of the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs, and a professor in the Writing Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.