This latest instalment has very little plot to call its own – Russell is an editor with two hot writers, both of whom have drug problems and cause various kinds of carnage, while his company is endangered by the crisis.
"For about a year, I was the hottest writer in Hollywood," he recalled.
Outside of these National Book award finalists, the hottest writer of the moment isn't an American at all, but a dead Chilean, Roberto Bolano, whose 1,000-page 1,000-pagee, 2666, is the fall's masterpiecepated literary title.
The novel is also strong in Chile, from Isabel Allende's bestselling magical realism to Roberto Bolaño, who briefly became the hottest writer in New York a couple of years after his death from liver failure in 2003.
He has spoken frankly in the past of his resentment of younger, hotter writers.
Concentrating on Harper's story paid off in critical praise for the play, which helped make Mr. Stephens one of the hottest writers in London theater.
In 1995, after the success of the film Priest and the drama series Cracker, I was one of the hottest writers around.
Still some biographical details are known: she is a professor of classics at McGill University in Montreal and has become one of the hotter writers around these days, a recipient of various prizes, a MacArthur "genius" award and others.
Etan Cohen (not to be confused with Ethan Coen) is one of Hollywood's hottest writers and Ben Stiller's go-to guy for scriptwriting, having worked with the comic actor on Tropic Thunder, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Stiller's latest project, The Incredible Mr Limpet.
