Drivel
Subtitle: deliciously bad writing by your favorite authors
By: edited by Julia Scott
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780399168888
Subjects: American literature; Essays; HUMOR; American wit and humor; Form
Description: "Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk ... the list goes on. They all sucked once, and they all have the guts to share some of their crappiest early work in Drivel: an uplifting bit of voyeurism, based on the sold-out "Regreturature" stage shows in San Francisco, and brought to you by Litquake and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Within these pages you'll find abstruse and esoteric poetry (bad); incoherent and illogical short stories (worse); bumfuzzling proto-journalism (shameful); and pretentious, overwrought journal entries (we'll not speak of this again). Thanks to these courageous but foolhardy writers, the world now knows the real meaning of a work-in-progress."--
Notes: "A project of Litquake."

"A Perigree book."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Totally professional.; title: Guppy love  -- Mary Roach; title: Dear butthole  -- James Nestor; title: Take a chance on me  -- Neal Pollack; title: Professor Eatanoff (and his guidebook of proper procedure for flesheaters)  -- Daniel Clowes; title: Click here! What I did for money  -- David Munro; title: D.A.R.E. to say "NO" to marijuana  -- Marie C. Baca; title: Trending now  -- Charles Yu; title: Simon's news page  -- Simon Rich; title: Letter to The nose  -- Josh McHugh; title: Bad romance.; title: Out of the mouths of Virginia  -- Ethel Rohan; title: The affair  -- Ellen Sussman; title: Coping  -- Heather Donahue; title: Nous  -- Glen David Gold; title: High school boys ; title: Susan Straight --; title: Raspy romance  -- Laura Fraser; title: Letter to mustache (after Michael Ondaatje)  -- Melanie Gideon; title: Love poem for a true hippie  -- Jane Ganahl; title: Ill-advised confessions.; title: Letter to the draft board  -- Todd Oppenheimer; title: Eat what you kill  -- Po Bronson; title: I dream of warm places  -- Peter Orner; title: Birth of a flower  -- Elizabeth Bernstein; title: Paul Reiser's ghost: a dream journal  -- Zahra Noorbakhsh; title: Hello Kitty diary  -- Katie Crouch; title: Spanish diary  -- Julia Scheeres; title: Family farmacy poems  -- Jeff Greenwald; title: Ten minutes to midnight  -- Julia Scott; title: Oddities.; title: 2 dead moo: as sick and perverted as they wanna be ; title: Nathaniel Rich --; title: Dear Mr. Pol Pot  -- Chuck Palahniuk; title: Juggling Jake  -- Amy Tan; title: Two feghoots (after Pynchon)  -- A.J. Jacobs; title: My wife moved to Chile  -- Chris Colin; title: Dear Mr. Nixon  -- Caroline Paul; title: The armoire  -- Tupelo Hassman; title: The roundabout story of Captain Torito  -- Kiera Butler; title: Cowboy up  -- Andrew Sean Greer; title: Dark matter.; title: Woman and clown  -- Dave Eggers; title: Three reflections  -- Rick Moody; title: Eighth grade journal  -- Isaac Fitzgerald; title: It's dumb  -- Stephen Elliott; title: Art school emo  -- Wendy MacNaughton; title: Persephone  -- Damian Rogers; title: Among the barbarians  -- Robert Anasi; title: Do in remembrance  -- Joe Loya; title: Terrible angst.; title: Trouble at Osage Lake High  -- Gillian Flynn; title: To the men at work outside my window  -- Steve Almond; title: Cold showers and imaginary friends  -- Joshua Mohr; title: Tissues  -- Matthew Zapruder; title: Fugitive fancy  -- Anita Amirrezvani; title: My thesis and me  -- David Ewing Duncan; title: Everything  -- Mac McClelland; title: Hippies -- Jack Boulware.