Punctuate this

Jay Oppenheimer, a nephew of the man who invented the Atomic bomb, stopped by the other day and offered me this riddle. It’s in the form of a phrase that badly needs punctuation. That that is is that that is not is not that is it isn’t it it is How would you punctuate this? […]

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Cars, hills and passed-out cheerleaders

It seems the closer I get to finishing this book, the more it seems possible that it could be mediocre. The immortal exuberance and the ignorant confidence I began this project with has morphed long ago into a couple of hung-over cheerleaders. I feel like I’m pushing a car up the last half of a […]

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The Gurus Lie

The author gurus (the people whose advice novice writers seek out to help our fledgling literary careers) have been telling us that we need to build our book platform at the same time as we write our book, or we will fall tragically behind in our marketing efforts, and as a result, our book sales […]

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