Fiction. In Ellen Hawley's OPEN LINE, a late-night Minneapolis talk show host finds herself caught in a storm of publicity and paranoia when she suggests the Vietnam War may have been a hoax. With the help of some strange bedfellows-a major right-wing fundraiser, a fringe-group activist, a governor, and countless disillusioned veterans-her outlandish theories begin to capture the public's imagination. But has she really unmasked the greatest conspiracy in American history, or is she being played for a fool by the powers-that-be? "Even the most outraged and cynical will find much to (ruefully) laugh at in Ellen Hawley's depiction of the American media's post-ethical age and the bizarro world of contemporary talk radio" -Stewart O'Nan.

Author City: MN USA

Ellen Hawley is the author of the novel Trip Sheets, which won a Writer's Voice Capricorn Award. She has moonlighted as a radio host, driven a cab, taught creative writing, and was the editor of the Loft Literary Center's magazine for eighteen years. A native New Yorker, she now divides her time between homes in Minneapolis and Corwall.