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Along the way, we meet Lisa's gay friend, Tate (Nat DeWolf), a hack writer who's starring off-off-off Broadway in a one-man show about homophobia, which he performs entirely in his bun-hugging underpants. In the process, he creates an ironic counterpoint between the heroic John Henry, who gives his life shoveling dirt up a mountain for the country to grow and thrive, and a hack writer shoveling puff pieces into various frivolous media organs for a quick and meaningless buck. Annie Proulx's 1994 best seller about a hack writer who returns to his roots in coastal Newfoundland to write about car crashes and the shipping business for the town's pitiful local paper. |
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