Hack Writer: Poems, Stories, Plays

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Summary: Hack Writer is Straightforward
Review: In Hack Writer, Dan Sklar's writing is the plain speaking language of Walt Whitman. It is what Henry David Thoreau would call the poetry of "healthy speech." The themes are strictly middle-class and as direct as a big old green Buick. The poems are personal because everything is personal. The stories are the sensitive stuff of American Literature in the tradition of William Saroyan. The plays are absurd--Pinteresque in the style of George S Kaufman and the Marx Brothers. Hack Writer is a bright house filled with music. It is the fact that our happiness will be dreams.

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Summary: Truth, Life and Poetry
Review: Sklar's book epitomizes what it is like to be a poet. More specifically, someone who knows that life is all you need to write. As a writer i find it refreshing to see someone put out a book without worrying about form or opinion. Sklar should be read by anyone who is just beginning to write or anyone who has forgotten why they write. He writes because he has a voice. It may be a whisper in the literary world but if you are willing to get close enough you will be able to hear the pages speak truth, life and poetry! This is a must have for anyone who can recite the alphabet.