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How I Learned to Drive, published in 1997, can be obtained individually from Dramatists Play Service, Inc. It is also included with Vogel’s subsequent play, The Mineola Twins, in the 1998 collection titled The Mammary Plays, published by Theatre Communications Group.
Vogel's earlier works are compiled in a 1996 book from Theatre Communications Group called The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays. This volume features the title play along with Hot 'N' Throbbin, And Baby Makes Seven, The Oldest Profession, and Desdemona.
In interviews, Paula Vogel has mentioned that the play attempts to view Lolita from a different perspective. Vladimir Nabokov’s 1954 novel Lolita has become a modern classic, narrating the story of a middle-aged European man obsessed with a twelve-year-old American girl. The novel is available in various editions, including Vintage Press's 1991 release, The Annotated Lolita, with notes by Alfred Appel.
Moises Kaufman's play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde explores Wilde's relationship with a young man. Performed off-Broadway concurrently with How I Learned to Drive, several critics noted thematic similarities between the two plays. Gross Indecency is available in a 1998 paperback edition from Vintage Press.
The Kiss, a memoir by Kathryn Harrison, recounts her four-year affair with her father, whom she met for the first time at twenty. Published by Bard Press in 1998, the memoir delves into similar psychological themes as Vogel's play.
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalists in the same year Vogel’s play won included Freedomland by Amy Freed, published by Dramatists Play Service in 1999, and Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg, available from Dramatists Play Service in 1998.
Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium features eight experimental plays that were staged in off-off-Broadway theaters in the late 1990s. The collection includes works by emerging writers such as Edmund De Santis, Lynn Marie Macy, and C. J. Hopkins. Edited by Martin Denton, it was published in 2000 by New York Theater Experience, Inc.
Emily Prager's comic novel Roger Fishbite tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl’s tumultuous relationship with a man who rents a room in her mother's house, leading to chaos and murder. Narrated from the girl's perspective, this book was published by Random House in 1999.
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