Invisible Seattle: The Novel of Seattleby Seattle, 1987.Out of Print? |
In
1983, as part of a Seattle arts festival, a group of writers, artists
and performers conspired to recruit the entire city to write a detective
novel. The project became an inspired investigation into the concepts
of city, language, individuality and authorship in a world of flux. SOLD OUT |
- Harry Mathews, novelist and poet - Excerpt from Invisible Seattle A surprisingly good book that emerged from one of the most audacious feats of collaborative writing we have ever heard of: in the 1980s, a group of literary workers, wearing jump suits and helmets, and armed with clipboards and business cards, took to the streets to get the entire city of Seattle to write a novel: a book about Seattle by Seattle. This project has been canonized by Fulbright scholar Rob Wittig in Invisible Rendevous, but (perhaps due to trouble paying royalties to the entire city) the novel has not been widely distributed. This project stands as a milestone of creative literary experimentation, collaboration, and electronic literature. |