![]() ![]() ![]() The insufferable Lou has all kinds of literary connections - grad school classes taught by “my main mensch, George Saunders” - and cool-guy Mats has a day job designing video games they both have novels about to be published. Sara Elizabeth Swallows is the author of a successful series of thrillers. What he gets is Shoddy showing up in bike shorts and talking incessantly about riding, not writing, occasionally humble-bragging about the Coen brothers’ screenplay for his book.Īnd Joe’s workshop fellows are hardly struggling. Joe envisions a bro-to-bro mentorship from Shoddy and a workshop experience full of struggling but brilliant writers. He’s over the moon, he tells us, especially because the workshop is run by an author named Glenn Shoddy, “the author of ‘Scabies for Breakfast.’ He knows what makes people tick - ‘Scabies’ earned him a Pulitzer - and he’s the anti-Franzen - over two million copies sold, almost no one ticked off about his success.” ![]()
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