The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature

This book is a catalog of textual desire, of wished-for and ideal books as described by a diverse collection of writers, critics, and text-makers. The maligned blurb form herein becomes, time and again, the entryway into unreadable books and the anticipation that comes before opening them. "A tour de force of dust-jacket discourse! A torrid farce of rocking back-cover back-patting! . . . Or so I imagine, not yet having ventured into this flurry of blurbs for non-existent masterpieces, a fierce tear through conceptual imagination, an idea vibrating with enviable potential energy." -Troy Patterson, book critic for NPR and The New York Times Book Review CONTRIBUTORS: Stephanie Barber, Ken Baumann, Matt Bell, Aimee Bender, Blake Butler, Teresa Carmody, Brian Allen Carr, Alexandra Chasin, Irene Ruiz Dacal, Susan Daitch, Jeremy M. Davies, Craig Dworkin, Brian Evenson, Camellia Freeman, Adam Golaski, Elizabeth Graver, Amelia Gray, Evelyn Hampton, Sean Higgins, Christopher Higgs, Lily Hoang, David Hollander, Gregory Howard, Laird Hunt, Greg Hunter, Shelley Jackson, Harold Jaffe, Jac Jemc, Shane Jones, Bhanu Kapil, Lee Klein, Evan Lavender-Smith, Todd Lerew, Samuel Ligon, Robert Lopez, Sean Lovelace, John Madera, Jess Malmed, Peter Markus, Michael Martone, Stephen Matanle, Ben Mirov, Warren Motte, David Ohle, Lance Olsen, Derek Pell, Tom Phillips, Vanessa Place, Brian Reed, Mallory Rice, Tom Roberge, Adam Robinson, Kevin Sampsell, Davis Schneiderman, Brittani Sonnenberg, Lynne Tillman, J. A. Tyler, Jane Unrue, Diane Williams, Tristram Q. Wing, Joseph Young, Mike Young