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Back in 1980, a year after I had quit the SWP and had begun making plans to write fiction (foolish me), I took a writer’s workshop at NYU with a third-rate spy novelist named Roy Doliner. But there’s one thing he said that sticks with me. He said that comedy is much harder to write than serious fiction. You can learn the craft of writing, more or less, but you can’t learn to be funny. That observation was confirmed once again by Jacob Tierney’s The Trotsky, a movie being shown at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and downloadable from Time-Warner Cable for $5.99. I knew in advance that I would probably hate it but paid the download fee anyhow, mostly out of curiosity. full review: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/the-trotsky/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
