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Bad Writing

NPR
Published July 1, 1996 at 11:00 PM CDT

Robert and Noah read some of the best of the bad -- the winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, meant to memorialize the author of the line "It was a dark and stormy night."

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