Naked came the stranger
by Penelope Ashe, Nurit Yehudai · first published 1969
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"First truly crowd sourced novel"? What about Naked Came The Stranger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger)? and the other, earlier efforts, cited by the article. Crowd sourced narrative always reminds me of the telephone game we played as kids (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers)…
on “We’re Trying to Create the First Truly Crowd Sourced Novel” ↗in 1969, twenty-five Newsday journalists published an erotic novel called “Naked Came the Stranger,” under the name Penelope Ashe, with a deliberately inconsistent style—the group’s ringleader wanted to prove an ironic point that any book could succeed if it was filthy enough. (The novel became a best-seller;…
on “Can You Write a Novel as a Group?” ↗> Do the same with public libraries, except the new version is kept next to the almost porn books. I haven't actually checked, but I would expect e.g. Naked Came the Stranger, Lolita, and Lady Chatterley's Lover to just be filed under "fiction". I'm not aware of a separate category for "fiction that some people do or once did consider scandalously erotic". There is a category…
on “Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase” ↗…written under the name Jane Friedman. I am not sure how common it is for fictional authors to have fictional biographical information printed on their books, but it seems hard to avoid for something like Naked Came the Stranger that was attributed to a single author without actually having one. And even if we think a fictional biography is beyond the pale, most of the bio here isn't fraudulent. Everyone is free to say they…
on “AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and Goodreads” ↗An earlier group-penned novel "Naked Came the Stranger" was published in the late 60s. It was written by a bunch of newspaper journalists as a joke poking fun at other novels of that era. It became a bestseller. Some years after it was published—when I was…
on “Can You Write a Novel as a Group?” ↗Naked Came the Stranger was written, not just produced, by a herd, to massive success. (It was intended to fail, and the herd writing was an element of that intention, but none of that stopped it from experiencing massive success.)
on “The Cathedral and the Bizarre” ↗I'm always tempted to pick up Naked Came the Stranger whenever I'm at the bookstore, but I know I'll never read it. THAT book is truly the result of hacking the best seller list.
on “Hacking The NY Times Best Seller List” ↗