(Proper Name) ought to be an easy person to (Verb). He is (adjective), (adjective), (adjective), and ridiculously well connected. His father is (Proper Name), the editor of (National Magazine), and he grew up in the kind of gilded New York (noun) where Joan Didion, Jay McInerney and George Plimpton were drop-in guests. His godfather is Morgan Entrekin, the publisher of Grove/Atlantic, who bought (Proper Name’s) first novel, “(Book Title)” when (Proper Name) was just (Age). Hunter S. Thompson, another family friend, came through with a timely blurb, saying, “I’m afraid he will do for his (Noun) what I did for mine.”
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If that weren’t insufferable enough, (Proper Name), now 25, has a third novel, “An Expensive Education,” being published on Wednesday by Atlantic Monthly, and “,” meanwhile, is being made into a (Noun) starring Kiefer Sutherland, Chace Crawford and (Your Favorite Rap Artist).
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Betsy Lerner 
But how well will it sell in Walmart? That’s what I’m talkin about.
That is beautiful. I look forward to ” ‘ ” with great anticipation. Your blog is a joy.
I miss Hunter
“Too weird to live…too rare to die.”
“When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro.” A Hunterism as cautionary as Thoreau’s “beware of jobs that require new clothes.”