Lost Joy

by Joy, Camden

• ISBN13: 9780967870328
• ISBN10: 0967870321
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Tni Books

Summary

Fiction. Short Stories. Collected here are the rich, poignant stories that established Camden Joy's reputation as "one of the country's most original music writers" (Ira Glass, NPR). Some are tales of high adventure in which disappeared songs or bands appear as buried treasure. Some speak of fleeting passions, of love squandered and identities gone missing. Some originally surfaced in the form of polemical tracts, or as ephemera pasted on the streets of New York City. Others existed only as rumors, beyond the reach of any reader. Each, until now, has been lost. "Camden Joy is sort of the Irvine Welsh of American rock, setting music to narrative with a knowingness and grace that elucidates what it means to be a rock star and / or fan more persuasively than any other contemporary novelist"--from the preface by Dennis Cooper.

Table of Contents

Preface	10	(5)
Dennis Cooper
Dum Dum Boys	15	(18)
The Almost Revolution	33	(4)
The Greatest Record Album Ever Told	37	(22)
Them Lost Manifestoes	59	(24)
The Launch of the MJ-97	83	(12)
The Greatest Record Album Singer Ever	95	(22)
This Poster Will Change Your Life	117	(14)
Total Systems Failure	131	(6)
Rattled by the Rush	137	(8)
Dear CMJ...	145	(22)
Surviving Sinatra	167	(4)
Observing Murder	171	(6)
Thirty-Seven Posters About Souled American	177	(48)
Amazing Disgrace	225	(6)
My Life in Eighteen Songs	231	(14)
Call Off the Fatwa	245	(4)
The Greatest Record Album Band That Ever Was	249