Category: On Writing
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Sir Edmund Hemingway
The call came in much the way you might imagine: “Is this David? I’d really like to talk to you about your novel.” He was a literary agent in New York, who’d just left a large and famous agency to…
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The Novel vs. The Theater: The Final Days (A One-Act Play)
(A courtroom. The Judge sits at an imposing desk. There is a gavel to the side. He flips through a few pieces of paper, then looks up.) JUDGE: Okay. Theater versus Novel. Couldn’t work this one out? Twitter, Facebook, shortened…
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The Prettiest Novel at the Party
There’s a half-naked woman in the corner, and she’s screaming at a short man with a monkey on his shoulder. A crowd is closing in around them, and it’s hard to turn away for any number of reasons — three…
