Title: Failure, a writer's life /
Authors: Milutis, Joe.
Publisher: Zero Books,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Literature Collections; Creative writing
Abstract: Failure, A Writer s Life is a catalogue of literary monstrosities. Its loosely organized vignettes and convolutes provide the intrepid reader with a philosophy for the unreadable, a consolation for the ignored, and a map for new literary worlds.
Contents: Ungreat books: William Gold -- Marguerite Duras -- André Breton -- (photography) -- Charles Fort -- Monsters of the memorious: Jill Price -- Henri Bergson -- (film) -- Richard Owen Cambridge -- Oulipo -- Bruce Ivins -- Cthulhu -- Alchemists of the everyday: Unidentifiable -- Marcia Nardi -- David Lyle -- (spam) -- Continuity of dumps -- The weathermen -- Ernest Hemingway -- Prelusivity: Solaristics -- Roland Barthes -- Walter Benjamin -- (archive/library) -- Abraham Lincoln Gillespie.