Namedropping: It works for professional writers and it can work for you

Clearly, Philadelphia-area writer Thom Nickels knows how to churn out the words. He’s the author of, I think, eight books (but it could be as many as 81). And he writes columns for the Weekly Press and Metro, &c.

He’s developed many a writing trick in his years as a writer, and in the cover story for the Weekly Press this week — it’s about the glorified bus stop art project at around 40th and Walnut — he shows us the fine art of namedropping:

Oh, what a witty bon mot, and OH Susan Sontag! Whoo! You met Susan Sontag! I’m totally reading ’til the end now.

The Weekly Press [Philly1.com]