Dirty Little Secrets
February, 1978
It's Common Knowledge, presumably, that the brief biographical notes that accompany articles and stories in many magazines are, in fact, autobiographical, written by the writer, not an editor. The practice is worse than self-serving. In the pages of the most frequent offenders, it leads to the most god-awful sort of cuteness. "Ethel Harris writes frequently on the ecology. She lives with three cats 'and a very large porcupine' in a cabin in Oregon." That sort of thing.I wondered the ot...
