Anyone here ever written a book?

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I know there a a number of critic/reviewer types here who contribute to various rags (and many of them are great) but....how bout a book? I've published, but only academic shite. Then again, I don't necessarily mean fiction...long distance writers, come out the closet!

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I've made attempts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

my first book is published in April. it's short (130 4x6 pages) and it's about Sign 'O' the Times. info here: http://www.continuumbooks.com/book_details.cgi?bid=12374&aid=&ssid=16541501KAE2B884ZIAC17&name=

Douglas Wolk, who posts occasionally, is also doing one for the series, on James Brown's Live at the Apollo

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

April? I thought it was supposed to come out, like, yesterday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

they pushed 'em back.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, a completed nonfiction academic/pop culture mss. in need of editing/organization.

Took it to the stage of publisher meetings, outlines, proposals, getting lunched but certain personal circumstances put it on the back burner.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I wrote two.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/030680817X/qid=1077058166//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i8_xgl14/104-3094332-8173531?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306807416/qid=1077058205/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3094332-8173531?v=glance&s=books

― chuck, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one reviewer for both those books who clearly should not be trusted.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

my first book is published in April. it's short (130 4x6 pages) and it's about Sign 'O' the Times.

Awesome, Matos! Well done! Anyway ILXers can merit a discount if we buy in bulk? My inner student had to ask...

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one reviewer for both those books who clearly should not be trusted.

Gleefully waiting for the resulting smackdown....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I wrote one:

http://www.jordanellenberg.com

― J. Ellenberg, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, a quickie rock biog with PICTURES to pay for time-off and trips and travel (all on the cheap cheap cheap i might add).

and yes, it is dumb.

― jimmy the doomed saint, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit! 40 dollars for Stairway To Hell? I got mine(the same edition) for like 3 bucks (probably the best 3 bucks I've ever spent though).

As for writing books myself, what Ned said in his first post.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

congrats jordan!

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

(Haven't written a book. But have translated one)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos, I saw a brief review of your book (and a couple others in that series) in a magazine the other day. They namechecked you. It might've been Stuff, Esquire, Details ... one of those.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, the amazon reviewers really hate Chuck. But his books sound so good...

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The majority of them seem to be pitiful morons.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed.

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

why .. why .. they seem ALMOST LIKE HEAVY METAL FANZ!!!!???

― jimmy the doomed saint, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

yes

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The authors develop what they call a "counter-intuitive" notion of the Philistine, claiming that what the Philistine tells us about cultural division and exclusion is more persuasive than the theories of the popular and the "otherly-cultured" in cultural studies and postmodernism.

So, is this mainly a study of the philistine's view of art from outside the mainstream?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only written half a book, but I did it twice. Does that count?

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

But his books sound so good...

And indeed, they are.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Does that count?

Only if tis still a "work in progress".

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

not really.

It's more a rethinking of art/cultural categories by reflecting on the exclusion of the philistine from culture as bogus. In other words, our concepts of art, taste, (aesthetic) pleasure and so on take it for granted that philistine responses, interpretations and experiences simply don't count (this is how taste gets to be singular instead of plural). If you include the philistine as cultural too, then the domination of certain tastes and pleasures can no longer be seen as neutral or simply better.

It's based on the idea that otherness is always internally projected as external.

Sorry if that doesn't help.

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

dean!, it was Details. I saw that, was very happy to be mentioned, yay! (especially since there are lots of other good writers in that series.)

oh, and duh! also in the same series, in April, is our friend Chris Ott's Joy Division book: http://www.continuumbooks.com/book_details.cgi?bid=12376&aid=&ssid=OD141LHGTAE7O88IXCEC19&name=

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Especially waiting for Joe Pernice on The Queen is Dead!

― nabiscothingy is working on a book right now, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hola, Nabisco! And how have you been?

ILM taking over rock lit universe shockah!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

that is out, nitsuh! well, over here it is. i've leafed through it.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the Meat is Murder book today at the library and idly flipped through it, but I admit I wasn't in the mood for a detailed memorial of high school life in the mid-eighties.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry about that

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

just go to amazon and enter The Contrary Kid

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1550225561/qid=1077068034//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-3124519-0884626?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

that's not a "memorial," Ned, it's a novel. and Nabisco, the book's been out since October.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I got mine(the same edition) for like 3 bucks (probably the best 3 bucks I've ever spent though).

I actually got the 1990 edition at a used bookstore (I had no idea there was later one until a year or two after I read the first) but likewise it was a well spent three bucks.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

though a friend who borrowed it fucked up the spine and now I have to decide if I should hunt down the second edition. They have it at the library here but it's actually in the REFERENCE section (wtf?) so you can't check it out for more than 2 hours.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Weirdness for its own sake seems to be the point of this artless offering. After a page-one definition of "contrary" that includes the terms "willful" and "buggin' out," the Contrary Kid introduces himself. "I color all outside the lines, but please don't disapprove?/ They took my favorite coloring book and hung it in the Louvre," he boasts. Elsewhere our hero expresses his fondness for bathing in "spinach soup and collard greens"; admits to craving "chocolate caterpillar pie'"; and confides, "I'm really very selfish but I'll give you all my money/ I hop around the house a lot and roar just like a bunny." Cibula's (Slumgullion, the Executive Pig) plotless, hyperactive couplets are set in varied typefaces, with some words printed in colors and others as pictographs (the word "porcupine" has quills, "caterpillar" is written on said insect, etc.). This littered text competes for attention with equally overblown cartoons?and, as Strassburg stretches and warps his figures into ungainly compositions, the overall effect is none too pretty. Ages 4-up.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This sounds like the best book ever conceived by man or god. I'm so buying it.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHA, you should have read what they wrote about the sequel in the New Yorker! I'm kind of surprised they didn't bag on me for putting in P.Funk and James Brown references....

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

that's not a "memorial," Ned, it's a novel.

Was it? Hm, then I wasn't in the mood for that either!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, obviously the Moderator Thread doesn't work, could someone mod up and get the amazon.com links out of my posts above? thanks bye.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha "our friend"...

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I wrote a little book a few years ago. It's called the Bible. You may have heard of it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The mods are busy folks. It's been fixed now.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

revive this thread in six months

― huck, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

whyy?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

thx mods and/or crudders, sorry to be a dick, it's what I do best apparently

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

(haha the advances arrived at the office today!!!! I am holding MY BOOK that I WROTE right now!!!! huzzah!!!!)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

:-) :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Congratulations!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

yay Matos

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

That series sounds excellent. I'll check out yr book Matos.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yay matos!!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Every year I publish the North Troy, VT annual report. Cover to cover, but it's really a pamphlet. Mostly financial data. Gladly, it's not on line. It would bore you to tears.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

congrats matos!

btw, is it getting a canadian release?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Begs! You sneakysneak!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

mwah ha ha ha haaahhhhh

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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