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Fed up with the Byzantine quest of trying to get a book published, Stephen Markley decides to cut to the chase and simply write a hyperkinetic high-concept memoir about trying to publish a book—this book, to be precise.Like a mobius strip in book form, the concept is circular, self-indulgent, and—maybe, possibly, hopefully—brilliant. This is the modern day saga of a plugged-in, hyped-up, idealistic, ambitious, arrogant, audacious, unyielding young writer, who's tired of waiting his turn. Like any work that claims gleefully and irreverently to be about nothing, it's really about pretty much everything—from the pitfalls of narrating your life as it unfolds to those tumultuous early years of adulthood when the promise of youth still holds the capacity to inspire awe. It is a story of struggles—to find your true voice in your work and in your life—given form as the author seeks a way to publish this book. (20100111)