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“How’s everything going working from home?” my dentist asks.
“Pretty good, but I’ve been working from home for more than a decade, so…”
“Oh really, what do you do?”
“I’m a writer.”
“Screenwriter?”
This is a common response, especially in Los Angeles, where there are 3.1 screenwriters for every palm tree.
“I’m a novelist.”
“I don’t read books anymore,” my dentist says. “I don’t have the time.”
Sadly, this is a common response across America, where there are 82 trillion movie and television fans for every bookworm.
“I tried to read a book over Christmas,” my dentist says. “My friend suggested The Handmaid’s Tale.”
“Whoa—that’s some heavy shit. Don’t get me wrong, Margaret Atwood knows her stuff, but that’s a very dark novel.”
“I know,” my dentist says. “It’s like a dystopian world, and it really freaked me out. I had to stop reading.”
“My philosophy is this: read the dark …
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