GRIST FOR A WRITER'S MILL.(LETTERS OF TONY KUSHNER and NAOMI WALLACE)(Brief Article)

TONY KUSHNER and NAOMI WALLACE met in 1994 when he came to the University of Iowa to teach a playwriting workshop, and since then they have shared their thoughts about politics and playwriting in an ongoing correspondence. Kushner's new play HomebodylKabul opens Nov. 30 at New York Theatre Workshop, and he is directing Ellen McLaughlin's new play Helen later in the season at the Public Theater as well as writing the teleplays for an upcoming HBO adaptation of Angels in America. Wallace, the recipient of a 1999 "genius" grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur ...