Fawbus Kennedy believes if he shows up at every first-degree murder trial as the grieving Cassandra people will come to accept the idea that his deep personal loss makes him something more exalted than the hack that he is, a deeper and more thoughtful writer than the craven mess everyone knows Fawbus Kennedy to be, and the worst part, Seth says, is that Fawbus Kennedy's rage over his first wife's murder has become indistinguishable from Fawbus Kennedy's jealousy of the good literary fortunes of his brother and his sister-in-law, who are taken seriously by the New York Review of Books and similar publications where a writer like Fawbus Kennedy is considered a bad joke.

Resentment: A ComedyBy Gary IndianaPage 81