“The Plot” by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2021)

“Jacob Finch Bonner, the once promising author of the ‘New and Noteworthy’ (The New York Times Book Review) novel The Invention of Wonder, let himself into the office he’d been assigned on the second floor of Richard Peng Hall…”

Coming up with plots is one of the hardest bits of writing, other than actually sitting down and putting the time in to write it. This seems to be why big companies love a remake – no one has to bother coming up with a new plot. They say, though, there are only seven plo...