Halls of Fame, described by Publishers Weekly as "the cutting edge of literature," is now available in paperback
Halls of Fame
Essays
- “Real art matters now. . . . It matters that in Halls of Fame a young nonfiction writer named John D’Agata is experimenting with essays that reconfigure dream, fact and reflection.”—The New York Times Book Review
John D'Agata journeys the endless corridors of America's myriad halls of fame and faithfully reports on what he finds there. In a voice all his own, he brilliantly maps his terrain in lists, collage, and ludic narratives. From Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society, from the brightest light in Vegas to the artist Henry Darger, who died in obscurity, D'Agata's obsessions are as American as they are contemporary. Halls of Fame is an absorbing, utterly distinct book that hovers on the brink: between prose and poetry, between deep seriousness and high comedy, between the subject and the self.
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About the Author
Credit: Thomas Langdon
Praise
- “D’Agata is an alchemist who changes trash into purest gold.”—Guy Davenport, Harper’s Magazine
- “John D’Agata has created a collection of essays like a stealth bomb.”—American Book Review
- “With the diligence of a manic tour guide, D’Agata exhaustively catalogues his encounters, inventing whole new ways of looking as he goes.”—Rain Taxi Review of Books
