Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold and Published This Very BookSourcebooks, Inc., 1 mar 2010 - 480 páginas From the author of Ohio (Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection in Time, Vulture, and the New York Post) comes a brilliant, hilarious, and deeply touching memoir that blows the roof off the genre. Fed up with the complicated quest of trying to get a book published, Stephen Markley decided to cut to the chase and simply write a memoir about trying to publish a book—this book, to be precise. It's the most "meta" experiment he's ever untaken, and like a Mobius strip in book form, the concept is circular, self-indulgent, and—maybe, possibly, hopefully—brilliant. For fans of Dave Eggers and David Sedaris, Publish This Book is the modern day saga of an idealistic, ambitious, audacious, unyielding young writer who is tired of waiting his turn. Like any work that claims gleefully to be about nothing, it's really about pretty much everything—sex, drugs, politics, pop-culture, ex-girlfriends and sexy vampires. From the hope of early adulthood to the rage of life's many (unavoidable) disappointments, it is a story of overcoming the obstacles and discovering a happy ending at last. Most importantly, it's a story that will inspire readers to find their true voice in their work and in their life. Praise for Stephen Markley: "Markley seems clever and funny, but it may be his "fire" that ultimately makes him worthwhile." — Literary Chicago "Compelling, emotionally resonant passages . . ." — Publishers Weekly "Markley is a knockout storyteller" — Kirkus Reviews |
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ChicagoBased Freelance Writer | |
The Parts of This Book that Belong in the Toilet | |
Nick Hornby Must Be in This Book | |
Forget This Book | |
Autobiographical Digression 1 Leaving Behind the Skin from | |
How to Get Rejected | |
Autobiographical Digression 2 Confessions of a Campus | |
Whose Opinion Counts | |
Please Dont FactCheck This Chapter | |
Expansive SelfCritical Honest Jumpy Surprising Self | |
WrongHeaded Condescending Toward the Reader Self | |
Never Start a Story with Dialogue | |
The Chapter I Called Wildheart | |
The Footnotes | |
And in the Meantime Life Goes | |
Chicago Cold | |
And the Good News? | |
The Call | |
Autobiographical Digression 3 Why We Write | |
This Book Published | |
The WrapUp | |
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