The Straight Dope on Writing (a lot)
Boston Globe columnist and author Alex Beam is eating the literary dust of authors like Christopher Buckley (11 books), Simon Winchester (12 + books), and John Updike (63). Beam has written three, and apparently this is not enough. He wonders, tongue-in-cheek, if the prolific brilliance of other writers could possibly be due to performance enhancing drugs. "Has Stephen King submitted to a blood test lately?" he shrills.