He's livin' the dream! Perpetuating Trouble

“I avoid­ed writ­ers very care­ful­ly because they can per­pet­u­ate trou­ble as no one else can,” wrote F. Scott Fitzger­ald. In this humor­ous mem­oir, nov­el­ist Chris Orcutt shows how true this is.

Debunk­ing the myths, Orcutt reveals that the writ­ing life is real­ly one of crush­ing soli­tude, chron­ic dis­sat­is­fac­tion, mood swings and self-doubt, and where suc­cess­es, when they come, are like din­er mints–sweet, but short-lived. And every­day life is equal­ly stress­ful, with cal­lous urol­o­gists, cur­mud­geon­ly painters, flir­ta­tious recep­tion­ists, per­son­al feuds and pet­ty thefts. For the writer, all of this leads to one thing–perpetual trou­ble.

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