Bitters and Blue Ruin

PHILADELPHIA, 1947 - Professor Roddy Schiffman, a big wheel in the psychological community of the day, is knee-deep in his latest research project: an academic text on pathological narcissism. Though his last book was a big hit, things don't look so rosy this time around; Roddy has writer's block. Things take a further nosedive when Roddy loses control and decks graduate student Sal Unmarino, who slinks back to his advisor Dr. Slavko P. Slavko. Sal spills his guts, painting a picture of a Roddy who's not only desperate to complete his book, but who has lapsed back into old ways, hitting the cups hard. Slavko senses something's not quite right, but even he is shocked when a clandestine search of Roddy's office reveals that Roddy ahs been blowing Sal off and running with a former Hollywood pretty boy, now full-time nobody named Chester Trunche. What in blue blazes could Roddy be up to...? What follows is the story of a desperate man searching to regain his former inspiration, but instead