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From the cover of Megahex<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Last month, Simon Hanselmann\u2019s comic book\u00a0Megahex<\/a><\/em>\u00a0entered the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0Graphic Books best-seller list at number 8, both above and below volumes by Neil Gaiman. No small feat, especially when you consider the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u2019 droll description of the book: \u201cMeet Megg. She\u2019s a witch and has a black cat named Mogg. She is also depressed and addicted to drugs.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s not inaccurate, but it sure misses the point. Megg and Mogg are<\/em> druggy reprobates who tease and torture\u00a0their\u00a0roommate, Owl,\u00a0who\u00a0is himself a rather unsavory fellow, but \u00a0Megg\u2019s depression isn\u2019t your garden-variety\u00a0Prozac episode. She\u2019s so invariably and subtly disconsolate and experiences such disturbing mood swings that it\u2019s impossible not to feel at least a tinge of that heavy sadness. And because the book is funny, too\u2014they smoke lots<\/em>\u00a0of pot\u2014her depression seems that much more real.\u00a0\u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

In recent weeks\u2014when I haven\u2019t been poring over Greif\u2019s Crisis of Man<\/em><\/a>\u2014I\u2019ve been unwinding with classic short stories: Christopher Isherwood\u2019s Goodbye to Berlin<\/em><\/a> and Randall Jarrell\u2019s Book of Stories<\/em><\/a>, in which the great poet and critic presented an idiosyncratic mix of all-time favorites, from fairy tales, to the Russian masters, to poems by Frost and Brecht.\u00a0\u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most writers are failures, and C. D. Rose knows that. His Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure<\/em><\/a> is a compendium of fictitious authors, all of whom are spectacularly unsuccessful. Spend an hour with it\u2014ideally not an sober hour\u2014for a bracing, mordant reminder of why almost nothing is really worth bothering with. My personal favorite fake failures: Maxim Maksimich (\u201che died in 1912, impaled by an icicle, a casualty of the thaw for which he had waited so long\u201d), Belmont Rossiter (\u201che challenged Dickens to a duel and allegedly tried to poison Wilkie Collins \u2026 He told George Eliot she looked like a horse\u201d), and Elise La Rue (\u201cshe wrote longhand, naked, voluptuously, lying on her divan, usually covered in the fur of a snow leopard which she claimed she had herself skinned \u2026 accompanied by her favorite cocktail of schnapps and Dubonnet\u201d). \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hate to admit this, but I found myself mesmerized by Kickended<\/a>, a new archive of Kickstarter\u2019s zero-dollar-pledged campaigns created by Silvio Lorusso with the help of Kickspy\u2019s data analysis. Click on the Random Campaign button, and you\u2019ll bring an array of crowdfunding flops to light, from a kid\u2019s book on Occupy Wall Street<\/a> to the restoration of The Commodores\u2019 1947 cargo van<\/a>. It\u2019s easy to poke fun at these projects\u2014especially with campaigns like this<\/a> and this<\/a> and this<\/a>. But it\u2019s more than just an exercise in schadenfreude; it\u2019s a fascinating look at why certain projects succeed and others don\u2019t. Why is there a place in this world for fruit-themed plush toys<\/a> but not The Amazing Spider-Pig <\/a><\/em>piggy bank<\/a>? A tool to shotgun beer better<\/a> but not a bra that doubles as a pocket<\/a>? Is one better than the other, or is it simply the way the project is presented? Maybe it\u2019s the fact that no one wants to be the first to donate to these \u201cabstract ideas.\u201d Everyone knows you always put a few dollars out of your own pocket into the tip jar. \u2014Justin Alvarez <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, Simon Hanselmann\u2019s comic book\u00a0Megahex\u00a0entered the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0Graphic Books best-seller list at number 8, both above and below volumes by Neil Gaiman. No small feat, especially when you consider the\u00a0Times\u2019 droll description of the book: \u201cMeet Megg. She\u2019s a witch and has a black cat named Mogg. 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