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I wanted no more of this. I had had enough of this self-serving flagellation of acceptance from my intellectual friends... sycophants, all of them. I was tired of my parents' questions about how exactly I made a living writing articles about Killer Bee attacks and driving back and forth from California to make television commercials. I was sick of running into my high school friends' moms at grocery stores and having to explain "what I've been up to all these years." So I escaped.
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This is an email from the publisher to Olson. It pretty much sums things up:
"For our part, we have recognized your part as straight shooter and find your behavior in the vein of a vain booze-sotten genius living brief moments of clarity... but your self-confidence encourages us to continue promoting you despite your self-destructive tendencies and outrageous betrayals... I am not going to suggest that another staff member take over your account because they do not want to deal with your aggravation."
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"For our part, we have recognized your part as straight shooter and find your behavior in the vein of a vain booze-sotten genius living brief moments of clarity... but your self-confidence encourages us to continue promoting you despite your self-destructive tendencies and outrageous betrayals... I am not going to suggest that another staff member take over your account because they do not want to deal with your aggravation."
This book evolved from years of struggle. Years of gut-wrenching poverty. Years of butting my head against the walls of the mediocre art that infests our society now. This is not a great novel - it will never be on any best-seller lists and Oprah won't select it for her book club. I don't want her to. I didn't write this for the mainstream. I wrote this for the Others of the world - the ones who never fit into the American version of society. It is a truthful account of a common man's life in a messy world, and that is why it has merit. I believe in something that will never die: the notion that you can live free and die in America, and do whatever the fuck you want to do in between the poles. Write, drink whiskey, sleep with loose women, drive fast, stay up til dawn, piss on streetcorners... I live how I want to live, I capture the moments I want to capture, and I know it is Art. I know it is Truth. I am just like you. I'm a poor bastard who has read too many great novels and has rejected the idea of the American Dream. I believe there is a literary Renaissance happening now - people are tired of reading and watching trash. This is my attempt. I wrote it in 37 days drunk on whiskey and life. Enjoy it. I'll be dead soon.
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- PublisherAlphar
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0978602471
- ISBN 13 9780978602475
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages220
- IllustratorZach Hagadone
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