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Guess What? Now There’s an Awesome Map for Your Favorite Road Trip Novel

Posted on July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 by Michael Kahn
As I have mentioned more than once on this blog, among my favorite opening lines in all of literature is Hunter Thompson’s in his bizarre road trip tale, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. (You can read that amazing sentence at the end of my post entitled “The Magical Lure of the Intimate Voice.”) Thompson’s vivid account of…
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Schadenfreude and the Bad Sex Award

Posted on December 31, 2012February 19, 2019 by Michael Kahn
My last post was on the Bulwer-Lytton competition, where contestants submit a bad opening line to an imaginary novel. What makes that competition such innocent fun is that the contestants themselves compose and submit a sentence that they hope will garner first prize as the worst opener. And “worst” in that context means “funniest” or “cleverest.”…
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