Literary database, nontraditional, "experimental" : Founded by Owen Kaelin, July 2006.
GONE LAWN : ABSURDIST FICTION EXCAVATION PROJECT, the American Database for Progressive and Absurdist
Fiction, tracing the elusive and increasingly deepening underground cavern that spans, clandestinely, the region between
Boston and Providence, Providence and Boston.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" :
By bringing into cohesive alignment the absurdist,
nonconventional and progressive in American fiction, our Mission is to fight the increasingly threatening corporatization of
our culture and the sidelining of literary art.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, nontraditional, "experimental" : Help us to prevent our destruction; visit us to find out about the true
literary artists who've been producing, all along, just below your very feet, without your knowledge, the writing that Random
House is afraid to publish until it's time for them to roll out the yearly New Young Voice, which is rarely possessing of true
artistic merit. The New Young voice is a falsehood, a creation. The New Young Voice is a lie. Gone Lawn the Excavation
Project seeks to correct America and replace it with the literary underground, newly excavated, freely absurdist and
"experimentally" driven. While the New Young Voice is touted, the rest of us languish in the ugly dirt.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : Don't let Corporate America destroy us, don't let them
deprive you of your freedom to think, to love, to be intrigued.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : Gone Lawn says, fuck Random House, fuck Corporate Literature, fuck
Random House. The Market should be in the Audience's hands, not that of the insatiable Corporate Mouth. Free us from
Random House! Free us from Corporate Literature! Power to the Audience!
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : We comprise categories,
if you must have them: Progressive literature, experimental fiction, experimental literature, absurdism, absurdist fiction,
absurdist literature, absurd writers, absurdist writers, absurd authors, absurdist writers, weird fiction, weird literature, weird
writers, weird authors, nontraditional fiction, nontraditional literature, untraditional fiction, untraditional literature, progressive
fiction, progressive literature, crazy fiction, crazy literature, fucked-up fiction, fucked-up literature, fucked-up authors,
fucked-up writers, demented fiction, demented literature, demented writers, demented authors, crazy fiction, crazy literature,
crazy writers, crazy authors.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : We represent the interests of new fiction, new literature,
artistic fiction, artistic literature, post-modern fiction, post-modern literature, surrealism, surrealist literature, surrealist fiction,
surrealist books, surrealistic, nontraditional writers, nontraditional authors, unconventional writers, unconventional authors,
experimental writers, experimental authors, American avant-garde literature, avant-garde fiction, avant-garde writers,
avant-garde authors, surrealist writers, surrealist authors, post-modern writers, post-modern authors, American underground
literature, underground fiction, underground writers, artistic fiction as artist books / artists' books or what's more
appropriately and accurately termed "book art".
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : This Excavatory Project can fairly be called a literary
database, writers' database, authors' database, fiction database, absurdist database, absurdism database, database for
nontraditional fiction, database for nontraditional literature, database for underground fiction, database for underground
literature, avant-garde database, database for progressive fiction, database for progressive literature.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : However: It's best not to call these categories
"experimental", for as Kathy Acker once put it in interview, "experimental" is a term which implies "not legitimate" - that the
work is in fact not complete, not a fully realized product. "Experimental", yes, can refer accurately, as with all art, to the
PROCESS of creation, but never to the end product itself.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : Absurdism is something Gone Lawn the Excavation
Project likes very much. The Absurdist in art reflects those aspects of reality which are more comfortable to ignore. Absurdist
art and absurdist fiction are Gone Lawn's veritable bread and butter. We like the absurdist.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : If you desire a literary revolution in America, in the
United States, Gone Lawn will honor it but we cannot create it ourselves. An American literary revolution is, indeed, within
everyone's grasp. Therefore, Gone Lawn the Excavation Project says to you: If you want a literary revolution, then make
one. An American literary revolution would be welcome to us. We'd like very much to see that literary revolution occur.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : Most of all, help Gone Lawn the Excavation Project to find
the literary underground. The American literary underground is what Gone Lawn wants most to find, for we are, after all, the
Excavation Project. We seek to excavate the American Literary Underground. Gone Lawn is searching for the literary
underground that exists in America but which we cannot see because, in fact, it is underground, this literary underground
which Gone Lawn seeks.
Fiction database, Literary database, Absurdism, Absurdist writers, Absurdist authors, nontraditional, "experimental" : Help the literary underground show its eyes, open its
mouth. Help Absurdism. Help the phrases "experimental literature" and "experimental fiction" to be eliminated from our
vocabulary and replaced, more aptly, with the phrases "Nontraditional fiction" and "nontraditional literature", or "progressive
literature", or "progressive fiction", as Gone Lawn the Excavation Project desires.
