found: Wikipedia, Oct. 7, 2010:(Michael Ventura; b. 31 October, 1945; American novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and cultural critic.; best known for his long-running column, "Letters at 3 A.M.", which first appeared in L.A. Weekly in the early 1980s and now appears biweekly in the Austin chronicle; has published three novels: Night Time Losing Time (1989), The Zoo Where You're Fed to God (1994), and The Death of Frank Sinatra (1996); also the author of two essay collections: Shadow-Dancing in the U.S.A. (1985) (out of print) and Letters at 3 A.M.: Reports on Endarkenment (1994); Ventura co-authored the 1992 bestseller,We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy - and the world's getting worse; he wrote the screenplay for "Echo Park", among other movies; curated the Sundance Festival's 1989 retrospective on John Cassavetes)