The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon

✍ Scribed by Dana Schwartz

• Book ID: 100240203
• Publisher: HarperCollins;Harper Perennial
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0062867873

✦ Synopsis

Narrated by a once-in-a-generation voice, that @GuyInYourMFA: a handbook for the wannabe literary elite and those who laugh at them, illustrated by a New Yorker cartoonist.

What does your writing implement of choice say about you as a person? How do you use 'taraddidle' in a sentence? Is it possible to make a Gin Ricky that's also a metaphor for the American Dream? How can you tell your Faulkner from your Franzen if you haven't actually read either?

Allow me, the guy from your college fiction workshop, to expound on the most important (aka white male) writers of western literature. You've probably seen me around, writing furiously in my Moleskine notebook upon keen observation of the masses, or defying the wind by hand-rolling a cigarette outside a local, fair-trade coffeeshop. I've actually read Infinite Jest 9 1/2 times. Care to discuss?

From Shakespeare's greatest mystery (how could a working-class man without access to an MFA program be so...