Touchy Subjects by Emma Donoghue

Author:Emma Donoghue
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

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Appalled by his credit-card debts, the writer succumbed to a one-year writer-in-residence job at a small college in the mountains. Until he sold the Great Novel for a hefty enough sum to pay the rent on his apartment for a few years, pragmatism seemed to be called for. In the distant past, the writer had tried every joe-job he could think of; he'd picked grapefruit and filed insurance applications, fried pancakes and sold fitness equipment door-to-door. Since then, he'd supplemented his royalties by other means that he was even less proud of: he'd written inane articles for in-flight magazines and lived two years too long with a doctor because it was just so damn handy not to have to worry about the rent. This year, at least, he would be making his living in a job which was, if not literature itself, then at least not unconnected with it.

As jobs went, the writer thought this would probably turn out to be a rather pleasant one. Interesting, even, at the human level as well as the intellectual one. Packing his possessions into the locker room at the self-storage facility, the day before his departure, he tried to visualize the office that awaited him at the college, perhaps with a view of the bluish mountains. He imagined himself mentoring a few bright young poets and diffident, late-blooming novelists whose brief visits to his office—Mondays and Fridays only—would leave him ample time to work on the Great Novel.

Dear Mr. Writer-in-Residence (I'm afraid I don't know your Name),

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