AUTHORS: Do You Have What It Takes?

It’s the ultimate reality series, the ultimate game show and the ultimate half-hour of intriguing storylines. The Ultimate Author is an awesome television program packed with entertaining, engaging and interesting events. Each week, contestants go toe-to-toe in a writing competition that tests their ability to develop attention-grabbing content.

Casting Call: June 16, 2007. Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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This Week in Sweeping Generalizations

Benjamin Kunkel on Samuel Beckett: “Easy on the eyes, Beckett is, however, a hard read. His plays continue to be performed, but as a novelist—and he considered playwriting ‘mainly a recreation from working on the novel’—he is increasingly more honored than read.”

Samuel Beckett MP3s

BBC radio plays. (via Warren Ellis)