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Will write for crab cakes

A humorous essay about the joys of co-writing

By Roz Warren (with Janet Golden)
Published: August 22, 2011
I’m a humor writer. I’ve edited a dozen humor books, and my work has appeared in magazines ranging from The Christian Science Monitor to Beatniks From Space. My pal Janet is a history professor whose writing had been confined to academic books and journals and the occasional op-ed. On a drive back from the Jersey shore one day, we were kibitzing, and Janet had a funny idea.

“That would make a good essay,” I told her.

“You can write it,” she said.

“Let’s write it together,” I suggested.

We came up with a plan. We’d turn Janet’s funny idea into a humor piece, sell it to The Funny Times, and spend the money on crab cakes at our favorite lunch spot the next time we went to the shore.
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