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Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys . His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah... read more

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THE first real writer I ever knew was a man who did all of his work under the name of August Van Zorn.

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  1. Michael Chabon (Author)
 

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