Today’s essay is the 105th since 30-Second Read’s reincarnation as a stand-alone web site. Coming Thursday for the 106th: a writer new to 30-Second Read.
And none too soon.
We needed fresh ideas here at the 30-Second Read world headquarters, but the CEO (me) and that bozo of a chief writer (also me) wouldn’t budge.
Then came deliverance. And, Deliverance, thy name is Emily Toth.
Toth is a professor at Louisiana State University and world authority on novelist Kate Chopin. What’s more, she can write. And she persuaded that clod of a chief writer she can write.
She’s tough, all right. She bargained like she’d survived a thousand faculty meetings, demanding twice the chief’s pay. We countered with four times his salary and will gladly pay. Four times nothing is …
She embraced our shtick that every essay stretch to exactly 180 words. And she accepted (reluctantly) our ban on foul language.
We’ve seen Toth’s first essay, and it’s a beaut. It will stay a beaut if we can distract the chief until Thursday. He wields a clumsy delete key.
