Monthly Archives: April 2011
The Seven Basic Plots
I wrote this the other day, intending to polish it later, but on further examination of the SBP book, I don’t feel the book is worth the investment. Here, therefore, is an unfinished polemic. . In 2004 Christopher Booker, a British journalist, published The Seven Basic Plots, a book that purports to show that all … Continue reading
Categories: Analysis and criticism, Non-Fiction, Writing
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Fingerprints of the Secret Masters
The scene: a lavish corner office, at night, high above the sparkling lights of Manhattan. Everybody else has gone home, but one man remains. He is David Remnick, editor-in-chief of the New Yorker. He paces, chews his nails; perhaps he smokes, stubbing out on cigarette after another, filling up the ashtray. The phone rings. Remnick … Continue reading
Categories: Fiction, Writing
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