The Plot (The Book Series, #1)

by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Grammatically, the worst of them made Donald Trump look like Stephen Fry

But stories, despite all that, are also maddeningly elusive. There is no deep mine of them to blast around in, or big-box store with wide aisles of unused, undreamed-of, and thrillingly new narratives for a writer to push a big, empty shopping cart through, waiting for something to catch their eye.