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Title

The worst book I ever read / The Unbearables ; edited by Ron Kolm ... [et al.].

Author

Unbearables (Literary group)

Publication

Brooklyn, N.Y. : Unbearables Books/Autonomedia, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kolm, Ron

Description

416 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Seventy-seven contributors from New York City's downtown bohemian beat offer the most searing denunciations of fellow writers ever to appear in print. Illustrated with dozens of images and with 16 pages of full-color art. From publisher description.

Alternative Title

Unbearables present The worst book I ever read

Subject

• Unbearables (Literary group)
• English literature > Book reviews

Genre/Form

• Book reviews
• Book reviews.

Note

• Edited by Ron Kolm, Carol Wierzbicki, Alfred Vitale, Shalom Neuman, Jim Feast.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Red duck / Jill Rapaport -- Becoming Henry / Carl Watson -- Tendrils of the leisure class / Donald Breckenridge -- Gertrude Stein's the Making of Americans / Alan Kaufman -- The Invisible Man / Tsaurah Litzky -- The Dogalyst / Thad Rutkowski -- William "$3 Bill" Burroughs' Naked Lunch / Max Blagg -- Sam Kashner's When I was Cool: my life at the Jack Kerouac School / Mike Golden -- Revenge of the Giant Pudendas / Dorothy Friedman -- Jim Jones' Use my Name ... a sad rip-off of Jan Kerouac's life / Gerald Nicosia -- Chasing One's Tale in Jorge Luis Borges' the Afflicted Ceremony / Alfred Vitale -- Holy shit! my gripes with the Bible / John G. Rodwan, Jr. -- The worst book ever written / Philip Mouyiaris
• "The Book of Genesis" in the Pocket Bible / Yuko Otomo -- Joyce Carol Oates' Faithless: tales of transgression / Jessica Willis -- The worst "Women's Fiction" I ever read / Kathe Burkhart -- Of motherhood and Sophie's Choice: a talk with Eve Packer -- Paul Goodman's Growing up Absurd / Diane Spodarek -- On Becoming: basic considerations for a psychology of personality / Sparrow -- Sanford Leslie's The Homoeroticism of Kahlil Gibran / Bonny Finberg -- Fuck you, David Sedaris / Marvin J. Taylor -- Pimping with the Pimpernel / Chavisa Woods -- The Fixed period / Arnold Skemer -- Force-fed: the Little Prince / Carol Wierzbicki
• The Bri_es of Ma_ison Count_ / Anna Mockler -- Pat Conroy's Beach music / Kristan Ryan -- She's come undone / Vince Passaro -- Andy Greenwald's Miss Misery: a novel / Michael Lindgren -- Advertisements for the unreadable / Elizabeth Morse -- Ulysses / David L. Ulin -- Ulysses / Tony Brungard -- Finnegan's sleep / Kevin Riordan -- Grand Days: the worst book I ever wrote / Ron Kolm -- Before, during & after / Hal Sirowitz -- Joseph Epstein's Friendship: an expose / Richard Kostelanetz -- "maximizing minimalism" / steve dalachinsky -- Just above the mantle: mass-market masterpieces / Luc Sante -- All the hack writers and Dean Koontz, too / C.F. Roberts -- The David Huberman reading list/ David Huberman
• How NOT to write a detective yarn / Claude Taylor -- "I play my guitar the way I want" / Thomas Zummer -- The dictionary that ate Wall Street / Dave Mandl -- How I learned to stop reading and love the crap / Jim Knipfel -- Winners go to the flaming pit / Mike Topp -- The Comeback mission manual / John Penn -- Proof_r No. 1 / bart plantenga -- Worst court transcript: "Cricket justice" / Clayton Patterson with Elsa Rensaa -- A New world in our hearts and Todd Gitlin's Letters to a young activist / Peter Werbe -- High rise / James Trimarco -- Shelby Steele's A Bound man: why we are excited about Obama and why he can't win / John Farris -- Shuffle off to Yaddo, "White" Boy! / David Mark Speer
• A racist book / Susan L. Yung -- Bad books I would most like to read / Jerome Sala -- Preposterus Schlocke's an essay concerning human misunderstanding / Michael Carter -- The moralist with the liquid chastity belt / Rob Hardin -- Diane Wakowski's the Butcher's apron / Matthew Flamm -- Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler; / Christine Calvo -- The Sellout / Michael Randall -- My last day job in the unreal city / Jose Padua -- Selling Stalin on the street / Arthur Nersesian -- The Murder of Juanita Appel / Janice Eidus -- Bummer reading list / J. Boyett -- The "N" work / Nancy Koan -- A brief memoir of disapointment on reading Melville's Billy Budd / Lester Strong
• The wurst book I never read / Anitta Santiago -- The Roiling wave / Lauren Mechling -- The untimely romantic / Susan Scutti -- Lovers and other illnesses / Wanda Phipps -- Midnight snack / Jeanne Dickey -- A good & evil book / Merry Fortune -- The book of McAnus / Robert Siegle -- Hermes to Toth / Peter Lamborn Wilson -- Doppelganger fever/ Tom Savage -- Splendor crowds the periphery / Sharon Mesmer -- John Ashbery / Lorraine Schein -- Afterword / Jim Feast.

ISBN

• 9781570271991
• 1570271992

OCLC

• 430935239
• SCSB-10623125

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library