An edition of Publish this book (2009)

Publish this book

the (incredible, hilarious, heartwrenching, unbelievable, and) completely (mostly) true story of how I wrote, got published, and (hopefully) sold a memoir about nothing

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An edition of Publish this book (2009)

Publish this book

the (incredible, hilarious, heartwrenching, unbelievable, and) completely (mostly) true story of how I wrote, got published, and (hopefully) sold a memoir about nothing

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Table of Contents

The gist
Where to begin
Chicago-based freelance writer
The parts of this book that belong in the toilet
Nick hornby must be in this book
Forget this book
Autobiographical digression #1: leaving behind the skin from your knees
How to get rejected
And in the meantime life goes on
Chicago cold
And the good news?
The call
Autobiographical digression #2: confessions of a campus firebrand
Whose opinion counts
Please don't fact-check this chapter
Expansive, self-critical, honest, jumpy, surprising, self-confident, cynical, smart, and very, very funny
Wrong-headed, condescending toward the reader, self-involved, and unintentionally revealing
Never start a story with dialogue
The chapter I called 'Wildheart'
The footnotes
So you know what happens with this book
Autobiographical digression #3: why we write
This book, published.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Naperville, Ill
Genre
Humor

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
070.502/07
Library of Congress
PN6231.A77 M37 2009, PN6231.A77M37 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23697729M
Internet Archive
publishthisbooku00mark
ISBN 10
1402229356
ISBN 13
9781402229350
LCCN
2009036474
Library Thing
9669259

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