Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
“The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.”
“I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.”