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If you live in New York and this job is on the up and up, the world could be about to become your oyster.

Or, you know, not: read article

John Ostrander revisits NERO WOLFE

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by John Ostrander

My mother once told me that an odd pleasure she had in growing older was that she could go back to favorite books, particularly mysteries, and enjoy them all over again because she didn’t remember the ending. She knew she liked it but she could discover it anew.

That’s happening a bit to me these days. I’ve recently started re-reading Rex Stout’s mysteries featuring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin (not to be confused with the late, great comics writer and editor with the same name, although that would have been an interesting pairing as well). I read quite a few of them a few decades back but not all of them; that would be a monumental task since Stout wrote 33 novels and about 40 novellas about Wolfe and Goodwin. read article

Indie Video: ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINT-CANCELLING HEADPHONES

Satire is alive and well on the interwebs, especially when it comes to peer production/indie video. Here’s a thought-provoking case in point:

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“Mary Richards,” Feminist Icon?

Noted comedy writer Earl Pomerant (THE BOB NEWHART SHOE, TAXI, MAJOR DAD, BEST OF THE WEST, etc) has been thinking, and we here at TVWriter™ are happy indeed to share this recent thought:

Do you know this woman?
Do you know this woman?

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by Earl Pomerantz

Was the “Mary Richards” character from the beloved The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77) a feminist icon?

It seems to me she’s been called one. read article

Most Read TVWriter™ Posts of the Week Ending 11/27/15

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The most clicked-on posts by TVWriter™ visitors during the last week were:

Why Writing For Movies is Officially Dead read article