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Product Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: TarcherPerigee (September 2, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0399168885
  • ISBN-13: 978-0399168888
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.5 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA motivational book for struggling and developing writers
By Peter E. McGinn on December 18, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
Warning: If you are not a writer, this review is probably not going to help you decide whether to obtain this book.

I have been a writer my entire adult life, but I have not achieved anything approaching the success of the authors in this anthology. For a long time I chased literary agents, submitted to magazines, went to writers conferences, and so on. When one agent showed a great interest in my young adult novel and worked with me through an entire rewrite of the book, only to say it didn't excite her in the end, I decided to just write and not worry about chasing financial success. (I am not bitter - in the process, she helped me turn it into a much better novel.)

Then Amazon came along, so like many unsuccessful writers, I started self-publishing via Kindle. Not in the hope of getting rich (though I wouldn't fight it if it happened), but rather to make it easier for the small cadre of fans who do like my writing to get hold of it.

The point is, I believe my writing is much better than it was when I started writing. When I reread my old stories, I cringe a bit. I mean, I see my style developing but I just wasn't there yet. So in reading the early efforts of the authors in Drivel, I see that much of it is worse than my old stories. Don't misunderstand me - I am not saying that it makes me a better writer. Their efforts were written when they were younger than I was when I published my early stories. Clearly they advanced farther and faster than I ever did, and found ways to move their writing careers through magazines, columns, or whatever it took to attract agents and become successful.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsNot "good-bad," just "mostly bad."
By Donkey Hoatie on February 22, 2015
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I was hoping to like this more. I like peeking behind the curtain with writers to see the stuff they throw away. But this one didn't hold my interest at all. I think it was mostly because I wasn't familiar with the writing of the majority of folks. To me, it read more like an inside joke between friends than the guilty pleasure it could have been. There were a couple of real stink jobs in here (in a good way), but there were others that went so far past the "good-bad" zone and just hung out in the "really boring and bad" zone that I found myself starting to skim long sections. I didn't savor it the way the editors and authors intended.

While I appreciate the writers all being such good sports about submitting this kind of material, I just wish there was more work from more mainstream authors. If you're reading this to read the drivel of famous authors like Amy Tan, Chuck Palahniuk, and Dave Eggers, you're looking in the wrong place. The rest of the cast of characters are relatively unknown folks with relatively benign drivel.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe blooper reel of literature. A must-have and a must-read!
By Jason Roberts on October 5, 2014
Format: Paperback
I picked up this book expecting it to be funny. What I didn't expect is that it would also be fascinating, and an addictive read that had me lingering (and snorting) over every page.

Unlike "high concept" books where the premise wears thin after five or six pages, DRIVEL is a rare creature: an anthology that's more engaging and entertaining than it has a right to be. Instead of laughing AT the writer who's unearthing true drivel from the earliest shallows of their career, I found myself sharing a sort of cathartic camaraderie with them--these verbal trainwrecks are fascinating, but all the more so because we know the creators somehow emerged with their talent unscathed. The contributors were brave to write what they did, and braver still to share it with us. It's an inspiring, eye-opening book for any would-be writer.

But it's also very, very funny. Not just laugh-out-loud funny, mind you, but laugh-at-the-memory-at-awkward-random-moments funny. There's Nathaniel Rich (age 9), writing what he THINKS are obscene rap lyrics, a teenage Gillian Flynn's "Sweet Valley High" knock-off, and Dave Eggers' painting of a naked woman and a clown, for which no words suffice.

This is the blooper reel of literature. Buy and read.
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