When slogging through a swamp...

...it helps to know that others have been there before and made it out. For that reason, I was very cheered by George Saunders’ essay, “The United States of Huck,” which includes this quote by Donald Barthelme: “The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.”
  
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In a dazzling display of Hollywood hubris...

...Lincoln screenwriter Tony Kushner labelled as a "made up issue" Connecticut Congressman Joe Courtney's concern that the two representatives from Connecticut were inaccurately portrayed as voting against the 13^th Amendment rather than for it. This, according to Maureen Dowd in yesterday's New York Times.

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