In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

As part of restarting my literary career, I just had a story published at Twist & Twain, Don't Worry, te Fix is In .

I suppose it's just as well Simon & Schuster decided not to pulp Arday's memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things , because it raises questions that go beyond just plagiarism or even conventional DEI. Via the Washington Free Beacon, The Free Beacon 's findings include the fact that pivotal dialogue in the memoir's prologue is similar to lines spoken by a Thracian prophetess in the pulpy Starz series Spartacus: Blood and San d, which was known for sex, violence, and bad writing. Just the News first reported last week that the seventh episode of the show, which aired in 2010, shared its title, "Great and Unfortunate Things," with Arday's book. In the show's pilot, Spartacus's wife utters a prophecy to him: "That you are destined for great and unfortunate things, if you go to war." Similarly, per Arday's telling in the uncannily cinematic prologue to his memoir, the midwife at his birth insists to his mother, "This boy is d...