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How Not to Be a Bestseller
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781590215418
Publisher: Lethe Press
Published: Jun 9 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
How Not to Be a Bestseller is a genre-defying poetry collection that fractures the self into archetypes-the poet, the comic, and the survivor-each navigating a body and mind shaped by chronic illness and emotional trauma. Finn Mott weaves a raw, unflinching tapestry of identity, displacement, and defiance, blending memoir, verse, and stand-up.
Vulnerable, raunchy, and unapologetically twisted, How Not to Be a Bestseller is part personal exorcism, part cultural reckoning. It spirals through three looping narratives of grief, slipping between forms and voices in a language that disintegrates as it tries to contain pain. This is the kitchen sink approach reimagined-chaotic, desperate, deeply human.
Mott doesn't just tell a story-he commodifies the self to critique the very systems demanding that commodification. What's left is a brutal, beautiful exploration of what it means to live in a body, perform survival, and sell one's pain.
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