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by - written on 26/03/02 (Very useful, 243 readings)
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There is a tale in the publishing industry (hopefully apocryphal) about an author who took the rather drastic step of killing himself in order to draw attention to his novel. It worked. People rushed to read it - and they all agreed that it was crap. It's a joke that might have its origins in the tale of John Kennedy Toole - but not the crap bit though, because this guy was a genius... On March 26th, 1969, John Kennedy Toole drove to a secluded spot near Biloxi, Mississippi, connected a length of garden hose-pipe to the exhaust of his car, and left the world behind. He was thirty-one. His mother, Thelma, later discovered the manuscript of ... Read the complete review
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