The Royal Nonesuch
by W. Glasgow Phillips | Nonfiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0802170285 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0802170285 Global Overview for this book
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In which the author, a failure at literature, fails likewise at pornography; founds a New Media Empire and a corporate branding consultancy; plays nursemaid to a homeless street performer in a bear suit; impersonates the Antichrist; fights cancer and The Big She; and attempts to answer the one great question that troubles his generation: What will I do when I grow up?
Glasgow Phillips published his debut novel at the tender age of twenty-four. The results were disastrous: encouraging reviews, translations, a paperback sale, a film option, and a Stegner Fellowship at the Stanford University Creative Writing Program. Over the next two years, as his second novel unraveled and freelance journalism assignments ended in humiliation, a horrible, secret thought took hold in him: perhaps, just possibly, whatever talent he had was of the kind that would never be more than promise4.
Washed up as a “real” writer before he was thirty, he went to Los Angeles and formed a company with his best childhood friend Jason McHugh, independent producer of “Cannibal! The Musical” and “Orgazmo”. “precisely what the company would do was somewhat beside the point,” he writes. “We were friends who wanted to do something together. In other times or other circumstances we might have started a magazine, a social club, a religion, or a gang. It was the late 1990s, so we started an Internet company.”
“The Royal Nonesuch” is the story of Glasgow’s roller-coaster ride through the twisted world of underground Hollywood and the funhouse of the Internet during the boom. This is a hilarious and poignant memoir about promise and failure, family and madness, friendship and redemption, and good old-fashioned hustling—and it is required reading for anyone considering a career in media or entertainment.
In which the author, a failure at literature, fails likewise at pornography; founds a New Media Empire and a corporate branding consultancy; plays nursemaid to a homeless street performer in a bear suit; impersonates the Antichrist; fights cancer and The Big She; and attempts to answer the one great question that troubles his generation: What will I do when I grow up?
Glasgow Phillips published his debut novel at the tender age of twenty-four. The results were disastrous: encouraging reviews, translations, a paperback sale, a film option, and a Stegner Fellowship at the Stanford University Creative Writing Program. Over the next two years, as his second novel unraveled and freelance journalism assignments ended in humiliation, a horrible, secret thought took hold in him: perhaps, just possibly, whatever talent he had was of the kind that would never be more than promise4.
Washed up as a “real” writer before he was thirty, he went to Los Angeles and formed a company with his best childhood friend Jason McHugh, independent producer of “Cannibal! The Musical” and “Orgazmo”. “precisely what the company would do was somewhat beside the point,” he writes. “We were friends who wanted to do something together. In other times or other circumstances we might have started a magazine, a social club, a religion, or a gang. It was the late 1990s, so we started an Internet company.”
“The Royal Nonesuch” is the story of Glasgow’s roller-coaster ride through the twisted world of underground Hollywood and the funhouse of the Internet during the boom. This is a hilarious and poignant memoir about promise and failure, family and madness, friendship and redemption, and good old-fashioned hustling—and it is required reading for anyone considering a career in media or entertainment.
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