{"product_id":"loudermilk-or-the-real-poet-or-the-origin-of-the-world-paperback","title":"Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucy Ives\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice, is \"hilarious . . . a riotous success. Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely funny portrait of an egomaniac and his nebbish best friend\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars, America's most prestigious creative writing program, to which Loudermilk has recently been accepted for his excellence in poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLoudermilk, however, has never written a poem in his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWickedly entertaining, beguiling, layered, and sly, \u003ci\u003eLoudermilk\u003c\/i\u003e is a social novel for our time: a comedy of errors that deftly examines class, gender, and inheritance, and subverts our pieties about literature, authorship, art making, and the institutions that sustain them.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucy Ives\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eLoudermilk\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImpossible Views of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, which was selected as a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice, and the collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eCosmogony\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLapham's Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. For five years she was an editor with the online magazine \u003ci\u003eTriple Canopy\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771039187232,"sku":"9781593763909","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/474d4866445d467c38b027d512977b19.webp?v=1780382304","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/loudermilk-or-the-real-poet-or-the-origin-of-the-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}