The Invisible Library, Part XVIII

Not only is Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist so funny that I kept posting quotes on my Facebook page until they revoked my newsfeed-rights—but it's full of Invisible Library candidates!

For a deeply satisfying sample, download the ersatz NYT Bestseller List from...the NYT Paper Cuts blog.

And yes, that's me in the comments section, telling people to check out Steve's Believer piece, "Short Takes on Books That Don't Exist"—made even more geniusy by the faux book covers conjured by McMülls and a crack team of designers:


THUD!

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UPDATE: The Second Pass and the Guardian pick up on the Invisible Library exhibit/blog/meme/thing.

Your most humble and obedient servant: Table-Talk for December 26, 2008

I. Dzyd Brian revisits his teenage sonneteer self, and more:

An hour or two ago I dreamt that I and some coworkers were missing our top rows of teeth. On the bare gums in the tops of our mouths, we wore "reversible" dentures.

II. John Lennon's "paranoid close readings of some lyrics from Ram." (Via.)


III. Dzyd Andrew's Flaubert's Parrot :

I prefer to think that this newspaper was clipped in Manhattan, where the paperback was purchased by a wonderful bespectacled clean-shaven man. My dad lived in Manhattan at the time, and I lived with my mom across the Tappan Zee Bridge in Rockland County. I visited dad in 80s Bachelor Manhattan every other weekend, sometimes every weekend. I might’ve touched this newspaper when I was four years old!

(Also see: "an ouroboros of one's own").

IV. An interview with Jenny D. at the Columbia Political Review:

When I sign a letter “Your most obedient and humble servant,” is that a falsification of my relationship with the person to whom I have addressed the letter? What about if I ask my servant to say that I am “not at home” to visitors—is that safely perceived as a conventional “white lie,” or do I actually degrade my own truthfulness by practicing these forms of supposedly innocent deception?

*Personal Days* soundtrack takes shape!

Click here to listen to "Coworkers"—a song by Crude Futurist and multimedia wiz "Dzyd" Brian McMullen—or take the extra step and visit ed-park.com, where you can first gaze at Brian's "WORKERS—WORKERS—WORKERS" logo (scroll down a bit)...and then (scroll back up—see, there near the top?) click for the tune.

Dizzies Newsfeeds for January 14–15

I. The Stubblemeister on an ancient stereo system! Proust had one!
II. Dizzyhead Jessica on a "supernatural picaresque"! Wow!
III. Team Dizzies recruit Devin on Edmund Wilson! Hello to all that!
IV. The unstoppable Levi: Donald E. Westlake—Anthony Powell fan?!
V. Dizzyhead Ben's top reads of '07...including a little curtain raiser for his Frank Stanford article (appearing soon)...yowsa!
VI. The Crude Futurist on a random wild booksore find: FUP, by Jim Dodge. Keeleresque? Sure, why not...anything to get more people "hooked on HSK"!