{"product_id":"9781582436784","title":"After the Workshop: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eLife is hard for a literary wunderkind after a decade of writer’s block in this “ribald deconstruction . . . of an industry in love with its own absurdities” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e You graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a short story published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand subsequently \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e You stay in town and work on your novel. And work on your novel. Until, finally, twelve years have passed . . . and you are working as a media escort for author tours and your unfinished novel sits in a box under your bed. Now your girlfriend has left you. Your car is missing a muffler. Your neighbor is walking around naked because his hands are bandaged and he can’t unzip his pants. You are at the whims of a slew of increasingly unhinged writers, and when one of them disappears, an insane New York publicist begins stalking you.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This is the life of Jack Hercules Sheahan, a character well understood by author John McNally. McNally is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as well as a former media escort, and these misadventures are brought to life by his very own.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Recalling the wry humor of novels by Nick Hornby and Michael Chabon, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e tells the satirical story of a writer who confronts the demons from his past while escorting those of his present.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134112809200,"sku":"9781582436784","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781582436784_p0.jpg?v=1763798330","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781582436784","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}