Author Dolan Morgan and his publisher take a surreal approach to sharing debut story collection
PRLog - Apr. 23, 2014 - NEW YORK -- Most writers want to get their books out to readers in the hopes that they'll be read and liked, but one author is offering a different approach. Dolan Morgan, author of That's When the Knives Come Down (Aforementioned Productions, 2014), has a pre-order option for his book which includes a "Private event with Dolan in which he burns 300 copies" of the collection. And you'll have to "add $13 if you’d like an undestroyed copy of the book" for yourself as well. If you can handle the exorbitant price ($10,000...plus $13 more), you can eliminate this author's work from shelves.
Additional pre-order options include more traditional fare (an option to get just the book itself, for example, or prints of illustrations) but others are also pretty peculiar, including an offer of "two live goats" and something which is referred to as a "lazy arm fight." Your guess is as good as ours.
It is apparently not the first time that Morgan has destroyed a book either. According to Bookforum, he recently hosted an event for an ebook called Google Place Reviews where "rather than a book release, Dolan...invited four great writers to help him destroy his book and eliminate it from the world forever." At the event, Morgan reportedly smashed a tablet computer with a hammer in an attempt to banish the digital-only book.
Morgan was also a volunteer for Marina Abramovic Institute's recent Kickstarter campaign, and perhaps he was inspired by one of their own peculiar rewards: 10,000 for nothing at all.
“If any book could compare to a twelve-ring circus with its author in the roles of ringleader, barker and headlining clown," says Eric Nelson at Electric Literature, "it would surely be Dolan Morgan’s That’s When the Knives Come Down, a story collection that uses the absurd to show us what truly makes us human...The unparalleled voice of this debut is surely one that will be copied, but not replicated by future writers.”
Take a look for yourself and decide what it's worth to "watch the world burn" ...or at least one author's book anyway.
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