{"product_id":"after-the-workshop-9781582435602","title":"After the Workshop","description":"\u003cb\u003eLife is hard for a literary wunderkind after a decade of writer’s block in this “ribald deconstruction . . . of an industry in love with its own absurdities” (Kirkus Reviews).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a short story published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and subsequently \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. You stay in town and work on your novel. And work on your novel. Until, finally, twelve years have passed . . . and you are working as a media escort for author tours and your unfinished novel sits in a box under your bed. Now your girlfriend has left you. Your car is missing a muffler. Your neighbor is walking around naked because his hands are bandaged and he can’t unzip his pants. You are at the whims of a slew of increasingly unhinged writers, and when one of them disappears, an insane New York publicist begins stalking you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the life of Jack Hercules Sheahan, a character well understood by author John McNally. McNally is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as well as a former media escort, and these misadventures are brought to life by his very own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecalling the wry humor of novels by Nick Hornby and Michael Chabon, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e tells the satirical story of a writer who confronts the demons from his past while escorting those of his present.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62268988293507,"sku":"9781582435602","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781582435602.jpg?v=1785509841","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/after-the-workshop-9781582435602","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}