March 24, 2000

A Pretty (Not True) View of Creative Writing

By STEPHEN DOBYNS

Grady Tripp is a tenured professor of English at an unnamed university in Pittsburgh. Grady Tripp is a drug addict. Grady Tripp is having an affair of five years' standing with the chancellor of the university, who is married to the chairman of the English department. Grady Tripp is working on page 2,611 of his fourth novel, Wonder Boys -- which is the name of a new movie, starring Michael Douglas and directed by Curtis Hanson. The movie is based on a 1995 novel by

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