That was fun

July is over and the July Harpers is officially a thing of the past (though it still shows up as the "current issue" on the Harpers site). So it's time for me to take the credit, or blame, for The Secret Diary of a Prisoner in the Creative Writing Gulag, a fun little parody that Mediabistro called the "most memorable response" to the Freed Screed and "incidentally, the best blog I've read in weeks."

My favorite response to Lynn Freed's piece was a long, thoughtful essay on slushpile.net called Who Knew It Sucked So Bad to Be a Published Writer? -- complete with pix of Paul Newman on the chain gang in Cool Hand Luke.

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