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The Transition

ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF HISTORY about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the accession of Lyndon Johnson to the Presidency. Writer gives a detailed account of the events of November 22, 1963.…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (531 words)

Writing Advice from George Saunders

"You may remember some of my other biggies, such as, 'Any monkey in a story had better be a dead monkey,' and 'Aunts and uncles are best construed as the heliological equivalent of small-scale weather systems,' or (the mother of all advice-quote-pairs): 'The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.'"
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2011
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4096 words)
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