Excerpt from The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Anna Williams-Bonner watched them, the writers, as they drifted across the library to the opened wine and the plastic cups and offered up laughably shallow praise to the man who'd just read to them. Then, before her eyes, the group defaulted to their eternal topics: the shortcomings of their former teachers, the inadequacies of the publishing world, and inevitably the writers they knew who happened not to be present tonight, in the library of this old New Hampshire mansion that art had built, long ago in a less complicated time. And she thought: If these idiots can do it, how fucking hard can it be?

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