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BOOK EXCERPT: The Carlyles
Pattie Carlyle wiped a line of sweat from her forehead, brushed her thick, frizzy black hair back over her ears, bent down, and lifted up a large wooden crate from her brownstone’s doorstep. Straining under its weight and the heavy air that presaged a thunderstorm, she reached several times for the front door handle before finally establishing a hold long enough to wedge it open with her foot....Read the full 1st chapter from the new book THE CARYLYES. Out now!
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CARTOON: Beach Read
Fiction friction. Today's cartoon by Scott Masear.
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I Am Kristen Roupenian’s Book Advance, and I Know All Your Essays Are About Me
You probably have questions about me. I am, after all, seven-figures big, an unheard-of sum for a relatively unknown writer. What would it be like to have me, you wonder? Is there any hope of my ever being earned out? And now: Should I be shared with Alexis Nowicki, the woman on whom the short story was based?
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Classic Novels Rewritten for the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Great Gatsby Regrets Having That Party Because Now He Has to Disinfect His Whole Damn House
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Excerpts from the NEW New Broadway Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Starring Naomi Campbell as Calpurnia
CALPURNIA: Atticus, you better check your lipstick before you even think of coming to talk to me. *Does a sultry hair flip and eye ball roll.* Now, don’t go tugging at that dress, Scout. You want to have it all wrinkled before you even get to school?
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EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXCERPT: 'From the Campaign Trail or Thereabouts' ~ Buy It Today!
First chapter excerpt of the new political satire novel 'From the Campaign Trail or Thereabouts'. Now available from Humorist Books!
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The Best Spots in New York to Get A Little Quiet Writing Done
Onstage at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre: Do you have the old play-based creativity-inclusive content bug? Scratch that itch by standing onstage at the Al Hirschfeld during a performance of Kinky Boots and type away.