After The Workshop (John McNally)

I really liked this book! Told in short chapters the story of a guy who was a media escort, driving around big time authors when he himself was one once upon a time in the Iowa Workshop. The protagonist had a short story published in the New Yorker and then everything went down hill. He ends up losing one of his authors and we find out why she disappears. He just can't seem to get anything right. It's not over the top chaos but he seems to run into the same people and lots of drinking is involved, eccentric writers, ego's competing because aren't most authors really attention starved?? I think he has a keen eye for the writing community esp the pretentious Iowa workshop people. Overall it's not the Great American Novel or anything but I think most of the stuff I like to read as opposed to what I'm told I shoudl be reading (the russians, Joyce, Steinbeck, et all etc.) I like a good fun romp through interesting minds and McNally has an interesting mind to say the least.