Vendor
	Foundry Claire Harris
Original language
English
Categories
Humorous fiction

LITERARY ROGUES

Andrew Shaffer

In Literary Rogues, Andrew Shaffer turns his unflinching eye and wit to explore our love-hate relationship with literature’s most contrarian, drunken, vulgar, and just plain rude bad boys (and girls) in this very funny and shockingly true compendium of literary misbehavior.
Part nostalgia, part serious history of Western literary movements, and Literary Rogues is a wholly raucous celebration of oft-vilified writers and their work, brimming with interviews, research, and personality.

Vice wasn’t always the domain of rock stars, rappers, and actors. There was a time when writers fought both with words and fists, a time when writing was synonymous with drinking and early mortality. The very mad geniuses whose books are studied in schools around the world are the very ones who fell in love repeatedly, and either outright killed themselves or drank or drugged themselves as close to death’s door as they could possibly get. Literary Rogues turns back the clock to celebrate historical and living legends of Western literature, such as: Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Hunter S. Thompson, and Bret Easton Ellis.

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Book Published 2013-02-01 by HarperPerennial
Book Published 2013-02-01 by HarperPerennial

Comments

Humorist Andrew Shaffer profiles the literary greats who wrote generation-defining classics such as The Great Gatsby and On the Road while living and loving like hedonistic rock icons who were as likely to go on epic benders as they were to hit the bestseller lists. Read more...

A quick-read biographical guide to literature’s most notorious wastrels, scoundrels and rebels, from the Marquis de Sade to James Frey…. Entertaining and well-researched

The protagonists may have been self-destructive, but their exploits are always wildly entertaining, and their output is all the more miraculous for what they survived