Why Writers Aren’t Fat

And how Voice then Happens

meesh from washington dc / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

Beloved anti-theist Christopher Hitchens acknowledged about himself an impotence for fiction. It isn’t without cheek that he said this, given that he was by most stretches a colloquial virtuoso. On dealing with police in the revolutionary seventies he comments, “I was abruptly recognized as nonthreatening, brusquely advised to fuck off, and off I duly and promptly fucked.” Before…