Just read After the Workshop by John McNally, a novel abo...

Just read After the Workshop by John McNally, a novel about a writer twelve years out of Iowa's MFA program struggling to finish his book and support himself as a freelancer and "media escort" - someone who drives around visiting writers. The writer is very funny - I laughed out loud at a couple of things- although the story is very, in some ways, "macho" - there's a lot of drinking and all the female characters women are portrayed as sex objects and nothing else. Once again, it'd be nice to ...