Round-Up: American Writers Museum, Bill Clinton, and Amazon
From a new museum honoring American writers to Bill Clinton’s next book deal, here’s the latest literary news.
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Which Candidate Will Write the Theme for the 2016 Election?
Political campaigns, like novels, have a beginning, middle, and end. Hard as it may be to believe, we are still in Act Two of the story that will come to be the 2016 presidential election. Act One is comprised of everything that happens in an election prior to the first primary and caucus votes being…
On Crafting Presidential Narratives
Martin O’Malley’s failed presidential bid is a novel that writes itself, and I’d write it tomorrow if my plot wouldn’t risk turning into fan fiction. A handsome, two-term governor gets bested by a woman and a socialist and suspends his campaign after receiving 0.5% of the vote in the Iowa Caucus. I doubt O’Malley’s story…