Bill Peschel: Writers at Play: Brendan Behan and Jackie Gleason

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Mostly Harmless. Douglas Adams.
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April 05, 2010

Writers at Play: Brendan Behan and Jackie Gleason

It's been a long day. The edits on the Writers Gone Wild manuscript were finished and e-mail to the editor at Penguin.

The book-making process isn't over yet, but this might be the last time I'll see it until the galleys come back.

There were some tweaks made to the manuscript. Dates added where found, corrections made, redundancies eliminated. The lawyers reviewed the book for libel and their concerns were satisfied.

The book has even made Amazon, although if you type in "amazon writers gone wild" you get something much different.

So it's really happening. It really, really, is happening.

Which leaves little for you, so I thought to pass this along: Irish playwright Brendan Behan and comedian Jackie Gleason having a good time together. I hope you're as happy as they were at that moment:

xxx

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