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Friday Happy Hour Video: “The Famous Writers School”

03.16.2018 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

Speechwriter and Writing Boots reader Hal Gordon commends to us Rod Serling's pitch for a service somehow at once more sincere and more bullshitty than the "Master Classes" that I lampooned at Writing Boots on Wednesday.

The school made millions in the 1960s before being discredited by a hilarious investigative article by Jessica Mitford (best known for an earlier exposé of funeral home practices). 

There's a sucker born every minute. And chances are, that sucker wants to be a fuckin' writer.

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