Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. Over 400 pages of the most searing, scandalous and scurrilous denunciations of fellow writers ever to appear in print Innovative, free-form and traditional reviews of texts from the Bible and Ulysses to Borges, Calvino and David Sedaris by Luc Sante, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Jim Knipfel, Carl Watson, David Ulin, Sharon Mesmer, many more. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. The Unbearables bare all; they are unbearably smart, unbearably talented, and unbearably lively--but here are the Unbearables at their highly bearable best. It's a pleasure to find out what this group finds unbearable in such an engaging manner--Samuel Delany.

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Title: The Worst Book I Ever Read
Publisher: Autonomedia
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1570271992
ISBN 13: 9781570271991
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: Tim Lane; Shalom Neuman; David Sandlin; Dan Freeman; Michael Kasper
Condition: Good

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Seventy-seven contributors from New York City's downtown bohemian beat offer the most searing, scandalous and scurrilous denunciations of fellow wri8ters ever to appear in print! Innovative, free-form and traditional literary reviews of texts from the Bible and James Joyce's Ulysses to Borges, Calvino and David Sedaris, from Luc Sante, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Jim Knipfel, Carl Watson, Richard Kostelanetz, David Ulin, Sharon Mesmer, and many more. Profusely illustrated with dozens of images and with 16 pages of full-color art.

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The Unbearables are a downtown New York City drinking collective with a writing problem. This is their fourth anthology with Autonomedia, following the inaugural Unbearables anthology, Help Yourself! (a send-up of self-help books), and Crimes of the Beats.

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