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Ted Kaczynski killed and maimed for full-page ads in the WaPo and NYT

David Foster Wallace hung himself in an effort, via pity, to promote his works to the canon

Proust used his fortune to pay hack writers to write glowing reviews for his work

Walt Whitman used his editorial position at the Brooklyn Eagle to write glowing reviews of his poems under pseudonyms

What are some other ways to get your work the attention it doesn't deserve?

>> No.13277923

>What are some other ways to get your work the attention it doesn't deserve?
be a jew/woman/shitskin

>> No.13277937

>>13277915
kafka willed max brod his collection of pornographic etchings to promote his work after kafka died. the story of kafka wanting his works "burned" is pure fiction: a coverup for the porn haul that brod secured