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A ROMANTIC GRUDGE MATCH:
When Rick, a writer with a million-dollar advance on his novel The Understated Stud, tries to pick up a woman at the Park Plaza bar, she pretends to be brain-damaged and puts him on.
Upstairs at the book launch she turns out to be a journalist. They trade insults on camera, he wins, and she's fired.
Vanity Fair hires her to sleep with the "Stud" and write an article on it, and the two begin a contest that involves New York society and the writer's estranged young son.
She gets him into bed and publishes a humiliating report on the encounter, and he can save his career only by marrying her.
Hah! Fat chance! But then she's offered a book deal as big as his and has to go through with it....
In SEX AND LOVE he's a teenager struggling with same. Later, IN THE CLUTCHES OF ART, he's a struggling writer, struggling with same.
Robert MacLean
Robert MacLean was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. He lived in Kyoto for twenty-five years, where he taught at Ritsumeikan University, meanwhile continuing his lifelong zazen practice. He has studied and sat with Robert Aitken Rōshi and Jōshū Sasaki Rōshi, and latterly at Tōfukuji in Kyoto, where Keidō Fukushima Rōshi was abbot. He now lives in British Columbia with his wife and young daughter. His book Waking to Snow (Isobar Press, 2020) was chosen in 2021 by Lorna Crozier as one of her Poetry Picks for Canada's 23rd National Poetry Month.
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