Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

They Are Flesh Peddlers

They Are Flesh Peddlers

But that’s not specific to agents.

That’s all of HR, right?

What an odd way to say it though…

Guess I need an agent, now that I have pointed it out and all.

THIS IS A book about Hollywood, a town that supports an ethnic group called agents. One of the best of these agents, Ron Meyer, now head of Universal—soon, I guess, to move to Comcast—the studio, that is, not Ron Meyer—once declared correctly that talent agents are mainly flesh peddlers, in which capacity they help actors get parts and writers get contracts.

-Larry McMurtry, Hollywood (Amazon)

In Praise Of Short Chapters

In Praise Of Short Chapters

In praise of short chapters?

In praise of all short writing.

Because blathering on and on is easy.

Short impactful sentences are hard.

And like I have said before – a certain chapter or a certain blog post does not have to be the end-all-be-all treatise on what I think about a given issue.

I mean, I have written about short blog posts before. And here.

The hilarious part is that this passage below is the entirety of chapter 26.

Ha!

LATELY READERS HAVE begun to complain about my short chapters, although in my opinion there is no particular reason why a chapter should be long. Does one complain to Rimbaud because of the brevity of his verse? In fact I am old and there are very many subjects about which I have something to say—just not much.

-Larry McMurtry, Hollywood (Amazon)

Sterling Terrell