Last night

[james_davis_nicoll]

I dreamed someone had flooded local used bookstores with plausible but fake vintage books. Not replicas but new books written in the style of olden time authors.

The only one I remember specifically was a Rissa Kerguelen novel.

Comments

[lampwick]

There's a Martin Amis (I think?) book where an author develops an all-consuming envy of another, better-selling author, and counterfeits an earlier book of the better-selling author, full of awfulness and missteps. And then, as I remember, nothing is done with this, even though I thought it was more interesting than most of the rest of the novel.