Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780399168888)

The writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude.

Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk, Amy Tan, A.J. Jacobs, Daniel Clowes, Jeff Greenwald, Po Bronson...the list goes on. They all sucked once, and they all have the guts to share some of their crappiest early work in Drivel: an uplifting bit of voyeurism, based on the sold-out "Regreturature" stage shows in San Francisco, and brought to you by Litquake and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.

Within these pages you'll find abstruse and esoteric poetry (bad); incoherent and illogical short stories (worse); bumfuzzling proto-journalism (shameful); and pretentious, overwrought journal entries (we'll not speak of this again).

Thanks to these courageous but foolhardy writers, the world now knows the real meaning of a work-in-progress.

Author: Julia Scott
ISBN-10: 0399168885
ISBN-13: 9780399168888
Publisher: Tarcher
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2014
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.30w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 83