1-800-911

1-800-911 transcribes "the unmistakable latenight voice of America. Her wounded, desperately lonely characters pour out their troubled hearts to a resolutely silent call-in shrink, speaking in voices that are terrifying, disarmingly funny and indelibly sad" -- Mark Doty. Here is one of the voices coming over the late-night radio. "SO HEY, / I'm a rehabbed convict, recovering addict, someone You would walk The Other Way/from on the street....' Anderson interweaves such monologues with found texts from old psychiatric books, offering cures for mental illness, and shows how sane her characters really are, how they have made meaning our of their suffering which allows them to live.