Steve Schlam’s ‘The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane’ is about a 607-pound wrestler facing in his last match with the unknown
North Park resident Steve Schlam has lived a few lifetimes in his 78 years, spending many years as an attorney and later as an actor, and he has also lived all over the U.S. and in Mexico. This year he added another accomplishment to his resume: published author.On March 4, Schlam published his debut novel, “The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane.” It’s the story of an 607-pound professional wrestler who is losing his battle with life.
I had done some acting in high school, studied with a famous acting teacher in New York for a time after graduating law school, then put acting aside while I became embedded in the workaday world. Then came the writing and the master’s program. And then my then-wife suggested that I return to the stage, study, audition. So I did.
That being said though, I did not actually write the novel at age 78, but did finish the final edit. Neither did I begin to write it immediately after the night I had the dream that brought Haystacks’ story to me either. I had to sort out my work arrangements first, so that I could do the hard work of creating without being paralyzed by anxiety about survival that would squash the creative impulse. That’s always the emerging writer’s dilemma, it seems to me. Luckily, I was able to solve it.
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