{
  "id": 12866512,
  "title": "Wordfest: 'Commercially unviable' Richard Kelly Kemick explores big-money themes with very funny book of essays",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/wordfest-commercially-unviable-richard-kelly-kemick-explores-big",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-08T12:10:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Calgary Herald",
    "slug": "calgary-herald",
    "url": "https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/books/wordfest-commercially-unviable-richard-kelly-kemick-explores-big-money-themes-with-very-funny-book-of-essays"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Richard Kelly Kemick’s self-deprecation kicks into high gear when asked how he would describe himself as a writer. Is he a comical essayist? A humourist? A memoirist? The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it author bio at the back of Decadence, Kemick’s newest book that he describes as an “accidental memoir of a sort,” doesn’t really help: “Richard Kelly Kemick […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}