we don t know what deals have been cut. most of the members on that floor probably don t know all of the assurances that have been made. we know there will be a rules package and that rules package will leave the speaker much less powerful than the speaker has been. [ applause ] that s a big deal. there was this talk that ten might go, the ten may go and the question is, you know, you talk about the isolating the others on an island, they may just be island dwellers, man. they may not want to leave. the real question for the country, what exactly was committed and what are the implication skwoos. manu, the fact that scott perry switched. what does that tell you. reporter: another significant moment here. scott perry is the leader of the house freedom caucus, that far right group, many part of this bloc of 20 members. he has been engaged in these intense negotiations over the last day or so. he s been signaling that, you know, he was not signaling
The following is excerpted from Jen Silverman s debut novel, We Play Ourselves
, about a young writer who flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects. Silverman is the author of the story collection The Island Dwellers
, which was longlisted for a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction. Her plays have been produced across the U.S. and internationally, and she also writes for television and film.
My first week in L.A. is long and strange simultaneously a repeat of certain basic activities (wake up, make coffee, drink it on the patio, check email, shower in the light-filled downstairs bathroom) and a barrage of smells and shapes that I have no context for. Fruit trees so overburdened with fruit that the sidewalks are littered with it; big squashy-blossomed shrubs; armor-plated cacti; homeless encampments comprised of dust-encrusted outdoor tents, shopping carts piled hi