Storytelling Makes Us Who We Are, Novelist Tells Rotarians: Article in the Westport Minuteman

Mark Rubinstein (Contributed photo)

“I always wanted to be a writer,” retired forensic psychiatrist Mark Rubinstein told Westport Sunrise Rotary last Friday. “People were telling me stories all the time … that’s partially why I went into psychiatry.”

Now he’s the storyteller, enjoying his second career, recalling 42 years of “listening to people’s tales of woe,” and working on his fifth novel.

Storytelling, he said, “makes us who we are … the novelist seeks to capture the reader, to take him from his prosaic world to one that gives him an experience he couldn’t hope to have in his daily life.”

Rubinstein spoke to his audience about his practice, about his genre, thrillers, and about writing.

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