Lydia Stryk’s plays, including An Accident, American Tet, Monte Carlo, The Glamour House, Lady Lay and The House of Lily have been produced across the country and beyond and have even won a few awards-- for the plays and for actors performing in them. She is published by Dramatists Play Service and Broadway Play Publishing, where her play, Safe House, is forthcoming. Her first novel, The Teachers’ Room was recently published by Bywater Books. She came to personal essays, perhaps her favourite form of expression, later in life. Email: ldstryk [at] gmail.com
Website: http://www.lydiastryk.com
by Lydia Stryk Riding the train to the small city of Darmstadt to sleep over with a friend after a day spent at the Frankfurt Book Fair, I observed an impeccably dressed elderly gentleman sitting several rows away from me across the aisle. He wore an elegant calf-length overcoat which men of a certain class…