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James M. Cain on writing editorials

By Scott Granneman / 19 November 2010 19 November 2010 / art, language & literature, on writing, politics / art, politics, writing

From David Zinsser’s interview of James M. Cain in “The Art of Fiction No. 69” (The Paris Review: Spring-Summer 1978, No. 73):

Editorials (we called them idiotorials) were written by trained seals whose only qualifications were that they be in favor of motherhood and against the man-eating shark.

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