About this episode
The episode explores the struggles of a novelist dealing with stress and technology through a humorous Halloween twist.
Send us Fan Mail Gifted and successful novelist, Archie Lovecraft, is overworked and over stressed. He drinks too much and feels enormous pressure to stay on top in the literary world. In addition, he hates technology and denounces it at every turn. His best friend and I.T. specialist, George, is desperately trying to bring Archie into the 21st century and rid him of his old- school ways. One Halloween afternoon, Julia, Archie's computer, has somehow come to life and starts verbally berating ...
Topics covered
- literary pressure
- technology
- friendship
- Halloween
- novel writing
Keywords
- novelist
- technology
- friendship
- Halloween
- literary world
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