Shoplifting from American Apparel (Sept. 2009) promotional post part two
SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL has been completed and emailed to Melville House.
Release date: Sept. 15 2009
Genre: autobiographical, fiction, novella
Blurb: "Helluvanovella." - Daniel Handler
Blurb: "I loved the book." - Stephen Elliott
Blurb: "[N]ew favorite book." - Lesley Arfin
Word count: 18167
Sentences/paragraph: 2.7
Words/sentence: 9.2
Characters/word: 4.1
Passive sentences: 1%
Flesch reading ease: 86.2
Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 3.5
Level of reckless shoplifting as compared to other books in my oeuvre with reckless shoplifting: greater than COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, less than RICHARD YATES
Index: there is no index
Is it linear: yes
Is it ultimately life-affirming: I think it is
Is it rereadable: I foresee myself rereading it 2-4 times/year
Tentative jacket copy: Set mostly in Manhattan -- though also featuring Atlantic City, Williamsburg, Gmail Chat, and Gainesville, FL -- this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young, questionably successful writer, from ages 23 to 25, has been described by the author as "a shoplifting book about vague relationships," "2x shoplifting arrest, 5x vague relationship," and "an ultimately life-affirming book about how the unidirectional nature of time renders everything beautiful and sad." [paragraph break] From VIP rooms in "hip" NYC clubs to central booking in Chinatown, from New York University's Bobst Library to a blackjack table at the Borgata, from Bret Easton Ellis to Lorrie Moore, and from Moby to Ghost Mice, it explores class, culture, and the arts in all its American forms through the funny, journalistic, and existentially-minded narrative of someone trying to both "not be a bad person or do things unsustainable in the long term" and "find some kind of happiness or something," as driven by his failures and successes managing his art, morals, finances, relationships, loneliness, confusion, boredom, future, and depression.
Release date: Sept. 15 2009
Genre: autobiographical, fiction, novella
Blurb: "Helluvanovella." - Daniel Handler
Blurb: "I loved the book." - Stephen Elliott
Blurb: "[N]ew favorite book." - Lesley Arfin
Word count: 18167
Sentences/paragraph: 2.7
Words/sentence: 9.2
Characters/word: 4.1
Passive sentences: 1%
Flesch reading ease: 86.2
Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 3.5
Level of reckless shoplifting as compared to other books in my oeuvre with reckless shoplifting: greater than COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, less than RICHARD YATES
Index: there is no index
Is it linear: yes
Is it ultimately life-affirming: I think it is
Is it rereadable: I foresee myself rereading it 2-4 times/year
Tentative jacket copy: Set mostly in Manhattan -- though also featuring Atlantic City, Williamsburg, Gmail Chat, and Gainesville, FL -- this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young, questionably successful writer, from ages 23 to 25, has been described by the author as "a shoplifting book about vague relationships," "2x shoplifting arrest, 5x vague relationship," and "an ultimately life-affirming book about how the unidirectional nature of time renders everything beautiful and sad." [paragraph break] From VIP rooms in "hip" NYC clubs to central booking in Chinatown, from New York University's Bobst Library to a blackjack table at the Borgata, from Bret Easton Ellis to Lorrie Moore, and from Moby to Ghost Mice, it explores class, culture, and the arts in all its American forms through the funny, journalistic, and existentially-minded narrative of someone trying to both "not be a bad person or do things unsustainable in the long term" and "find some kind of happiness or something," as driven by his failures and successes managing his art, morals, finances, relationships, loneliness, confusion, boredom, future, and depression.
13 Comments:
I think Victoria will/may be alienated at that photo. I will be pleased though.
"from Moby to Ghost Mice"
is really, really funny to me.
in 7 POUNDS will smith calls woody harrelson a blind, vegan, beef-salesman coward
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i so wanna pre-order that shit. rily told me some stuff that made me smile.
15 US dollars is a lot of rutabagas.
Like maybe 17 if you are at Shop Rite. Maybe 20 if you are at a farmer's market.
i wanna see 'seven pounds'
your word count was my zip code when i lived in gibson, pennsylvania
thank you for pre ordering
why do you want to be 'life-affirming'?
what do you mean by this?
does dave eggers mean the same thing?
i feel that you are questioning me existentially
i like dave eggers
'i am existentially fucked' is much better than 'coke...it's the real thing' or 'winston tastes good, like a cigarette should'
meanwhile you are wise to like dave eggers, as he and his followers and fans compose a large force in today's publishing world.
his work represents an attempt to emerge from the relentlessly ironic into the post-ironic or something
the risk being that one becomes sentimental.....leading into 'kitsch' and the 'twice-shed tear.'
you are seeing yourself emote, in other words.
your work doesn't do this, by the way.
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