Tag: writers
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: slender yellow fruit syndrome :
Last week it was pickles. This week, bananas. Which begs the question, is this a rut or a theme developing? Probably neither. Unless two is a rut. Such a small number is surely more of a coincidence, right? And I’m too lazy to establish a theme. Those take work or a deep and abiding love […]
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: a seat at the algonquin round table :
Okay, so it wasn’t exactly a seat. Or even a particularly round table. Still, it was the Algonquin, the famed hotel on West 44th in Manhattan where the great, influential writers of the 1920s lunched and witty, sophisticated bon mots zinged. And I was there — not at the same time, of course, but in […]
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Writers Who Aren’t: The Larry David Syndrome.
There’s a popular misconception leading people to believe that studying The Mighty Big Book of Bathroom Humor and Genitalia Jokes will make them a writer. A very, very wealthy writer. A conclusion which is, in fact, false. You will not become a writer, you will become Larry David, a creepy organism indigenous to bathrooms and […]
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