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How Authors Write

The stream-of-consciousness lyricism of On the Road derives in no small part from the fact that Kerouac typed it on a continuous scroll of paper. Early in Nicholson Baker's slim first novel, The…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2579 words)

The Undertaker's Racket

In 1960, Americans spent, according to the only available government estimate, $1.6 billion on funerals, setting thereby a new national and world record. The $1.6 billion is, as we shall see, only a…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5761 words)
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