| 词条 | Villanova (short story) |
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|name = Villanova |author = John Hodgman |country = United States |language = English |series = |genre = Short story |publication_type = Periodical |published_in = One Story |publisher = One Story, Inc. |media_type = Print (Magazine) |pub_date = April 1, 2002 |followed_by = }} "Villanova" (or "How I Became a Former Professional Literary Agent") is a short story by American humorist John Hodgman. It was first published in the first issue of One Story on April 1, 2002.[1][2] PremiseWhile attending a 1998 romance and western fiction writers' conference in an Oklahoma City Embassy Suites, an unnamed literary agent stumbles across an elusive science fiction writer who has largely disappeared since the 1970s after publishing an incomplete trilogy. The story is interspersed with excerpts from a fictional June 1979 Playboy magazine article called "Where Is Darling Egan?" PublicationThe original publication of Villanova was limited to a print run of 600 with an over-all cost of $1,000.[3] Villanova was republished as "How I Became a Former Professional Literary Agent" in the final chapter "The Beginning" for Hodgman's 2011 satirical almanac That Is All. ReceptionNew York Journal of Books{{'}}s Vinton Rafe McCabe reviewed the story (along with the penultimate That Is All chapter "The End") as "honestly, in and of themselves, worth the cost of all three books."[4]References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=stories&story_id=1|title=“Villanova or: How I Became a Former Professional Literary Agent” by John Hodgman|date=1 April 2002|work=One Story|accessdate=26 August 2015}} {{John Hodgman}}{{Authority control}}2. ^{{cite web|author=Travis Kurowski|url=http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=stories&story_id=1|title=Literary MagNet|date=1 May 2014|work=Poets & Writers|accessdate=26 August 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web|author=Dinitia Smith|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/books/a-little-start-up-entertains-one-story-at-a-time.html|title=A Little Start-Up Entertains, One Story at a Time|date=23 March 2004|work=The New York Times|accessdate=26 August 2015}} 4. ^{{cite web|author=Vinton Rafe McCabe|url=http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=stories&story_id=1|title=a book review by Vinton Rafe McCabe: That Is All|date=1 November 2011|work=New York Journal of Books|accessdate=28 August 2015}} 3 : 2002 short stories|Short stories by John Hodgman|Short stories set in Oklahoma |
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