Smith, Michael F. "What If Novelists Took Steroids?" New York Times 11 Aug. 2013: SR5. New York Times. New York Times Company, 10 Aug. 2013. Web. 16 Oct. 2013.
The author describes what it would be like to take steroids and if he would if it were available. He explains the whole process of being pressured into taking, becoming one of the best writers in the world, writing bestseller after bestseller. But then he describes the fall from grace, the discovery of the usage. He decides that he wouldn't take them because when you take steroids you know it will end badly but if you don't anything could happen.
This editorial shows how steroids always ends badly and in shame for one who takes so you are better off playing sports clean and keeping your reputation in tact.
VETTING THE SOURCE: Michael Farris Smith is a novelist from Mississippi. He has been awarded the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction, the Alabama Arts Council Fellowship Award for Literature, and the Brick Streets Press Short Story Award. His short fiction has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his essays have appeared with The New York Times, University Press of Mississippi, and more.
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