Do people in the writing life smoke to show they’d rather die than change bad habits? Or maybe they secretly want to lose a few pounds, although Joan Didion may disagree. The writing life? Please. I hear that and think of droopy people sitting around typewriters with a pipe or cigarette stuck in their face. […]
WRITING LIFE LOOKS FOR SMOKING WRITERS
May 5, 2020 by David Gillaspie
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