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PHANTOM BOOKS & ART:
Abandoned Novels
A Betrayal of All Perfection
A Book of Absolute Whiteness
A Cathedral Full of Fire
A Clean and Unmarked Sheet of Whatman Paper
A Fallen Book of Prophecy
A Flighty Mind Might Be Going Somewhere
A Garden Shed
A Grin Without a Cat
A Non-Writing Writer
A Reader’s Guide to the Unwritten
A Scissors and Paste Man
A Thing in the World
Absence
After Literature
Aiming for Perfection
All Writing is Conceptual
An Attempt at Exhausting Negation
An Excess of Language
An Expectation of Thought
Art Taken to Its Most Extreme Consequence
Art That Seems to Want to Be Destroyed
Arthur Cravan Podcast
As a Child Might Pee Against a Tree
Auto-Destructive Art
Barthes’s Fantasy-of-the-Novel
Blank Art
The Blanks Have All Been Filled
Blank Mallarmé
Blemish-Free Counterparts
The Blueprint
Book of Blank Maps
The Book Next to It
The Book That Can’t Wait
The Book That Destroys Itself
The Book You Get
Broken Books
Burn Baby Burn
But They Aren’t Writing Anything At All!
Can Artists Create Art By Doing Nothing?
Casting a Glance
Chaotic with Corrections
Claiming Her Back
Close to Godliness
Counterbook
Creating Silences Around Things
Cubic Bulk
Dead Time
The Desire-to-Write
The Devil’s Job
Devouring the World
Disappear Here
Drifting Away on the Wind
Erasures
Essential Solitude
Even Then, So Little
Existence as Exile
Existing on Sunday
Faint But Not Undecipherable
Fiction Fatigue
The Fiction of Fiction
The Flaming Nipples
For a Book to Exist…
Forever On the Verge of Orgasm
Fragments Just Above the Nothingness Replacing Them
Future Anterior
The Ghost Book
Ghostly Mutterings in Galleries
The God Who is Not
The Gravest of Misconceptions
The Graveyard of Abandoned Projects
Hollowed Out Letters
The Importance of Retelling
The Impossibilty of Narrating the Event
The Impossible Novel
Impossible Words About Words
Inalienable Silence
Inconclusiveness
Inevitable Failure
The Infinitely Possible
The Influence of Unread Books
Infraordinary
Inks of Dryness on Walls of Damp
Ink So Dense It’s Mute, Or the Purest Fom of Literature
Interzones
In the Void Room
Invisible Things
It Does Not Quite
La page tellement blanche
Letting Speak
Libraries of Unpublished & Unwritten Books
Like the Word on the Tip of Your Tongue
Literary Silences
The Literature of the Unword
Living Poetry
Living Things
Livre blanc
Locus of a Secret
The Logoclast’s League
The Loss of a Loss
The Materiality of Language
Melancholia as Ultimate Rebellion
Mute Mermaids
Never Yet Was Put Into Words Or Books
The Next Step
The Nothingness Lying Behind It
The Not-Oyster Bit
Not to Smear the World With Sentences
Notes on Imaginary Books
Nudisme
Obliterate
Obliterating Texts
On the Edge of Self-Erasure
Only an Imitation of the Ideal
The Only Problem is I Haven’t Done the Work
The Paper Bag of My Solipsism
The Pathos of Things
Perpetually Entering ‘Whale’ Into a Search Engine
The Person Who Wrote the Story
Possessing Nothing
Posthumous Literature
Potential Literature
Present Absence
The Project
The Project Itself is Enjoyment Enough
Records of Disappearances
Redactive Poetry Project
The Resting of a God
Ruins in Reverse
The Ruins of Books
Saudade
A Serious Book
She Was
Silences
The Silent Call of Conscience
Slow-Cooked Books: The Virtues of Writing Slowly

Slowly Reduced to Embers
The Sound of Thinking
Strategies of Copying and Appropriation
Ten Memorable Books That Never Existed
That Something Itself
Things Not Said, Actions Not Done
This Book is My Cowardice
To Remember That We Miss It
To Write is to Fail
To Write the Thing That is to be Written
Too Much of a Writer to Even Begin to Write
Total Diary
The Translation of a Text Already Within Us
Trapped But Not Confined
Trivialities of Text
Trying to Extract Beauty From Not Being Able to Extract Beauty
Turning Its Own Tables
The Uncontainable
Uncut Pages
Unexpected Landscapes
Unfinished Symphonies
Un livre sur rien
Unmentionable
Unopened Book
Un/Read
Vague Foreshadowing of a Yet Unwritten Book
We Are All Bartlebys
What Must the Stones Think of Us?
When All Falls in Ruin
Where Are All the Words?
The White Noise No Writing Can Store
Will Ashon’s Beautiful Impossibilities

Without the Blank Page
(Wo)men Without Qualities
Woolf’s Dumb Dummy Copy
Words That Go Silent in Transit
The Wreck of a Perfect Idea
Writing as Postponement
Writing Itself
Yet Another Failed Novel

PHANTOM BANDS:
Auto-Destructive Art
Blank Art
Les BonBons

The Disintegration Loops
The Fascination of Phantom Bands
The Flowers of Romance
Hard to Love
Invisible Tradition
It’s What You’re Not Playing
King Mob
Leaving Things Out
The Moors Murderers
The Rainbow Coloured Green Beans
Rumour Bands and Tease Gigs
The Screamers
Sex Pistols
The Slits
Unheard Melodies
Watching On Mute

QUOTES:
Andrea Barrett
Roland Barthes
Greg Baxter
Walter Benjamin
David Bezmozgis
Roberto Bolaño
Christine Brooke-Rose
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Wilkie Collins
Geoff Dyer
Terry Eagleton
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sigmund Freud
William Gass
William Gass
William Gass
Witold Gombrowicz
Ernest Hemingway
Lars Iyer
Franz Kafka
Milan Kundera
Deborah Levy
Clarice Lispector
Malcolm Lowry
Bobbi Lurie
Stéphane Mallarmé
Tom McCarthy
A. A. Milne
Dylan Nice
Marcel Proust
Arthur Ransome
Rainer Maria Rilke
Alain Robbe-Grillet
John Ruskin
Will Self
William Shakespeare
David Shields
Bruno Shulz
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jean-Philippe Toussaint

David Foster Wallace

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