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Susanna Fogel and David Iserson on Breaking In, Endurance, and the Reality of a Writing Life

Susanna Fogel and David Iserson on Breaking In, Endurance, and the Reality of a Writing Life

For screenwriters of all levels, the film and television industry is often imagined as a neat sequence of milestones: getting read, getting staffed, selling a script, and moving steadily upward. The reality, as screenwriters Susanna Fogel and David Iserson describe it, is anything but that. In a comprehensive conversation about their careers, Fogel and Iserson […]

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Ponies: How Susanna Fogel and David Iserson Turned Cold War Espionage Into a Modern Story of Female Friendship

Ponies: How Susanna Fogel and David Iserson Turned Cold War Espionage Into a Modern Story of Female Friendship

Peacock’s Ponies (Persons Of No Interest according to the Master International Spy Manual) may be set in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage, but at its core, the television series on Peacock is something far more intimate: a story about female friendship at a moment of personal reckoning and redefining. Created by longtime collaborators […]