HTMLGIANT Tournament of Bookshit   single elimination
1
100
Magical Realism
2
0
Living in Brooklyn
 
 
3
0
Facebook word counts
4
100
Alcoholism
  
5
0
Really long bios
6
100
Super long live reader
 
 
7
0
Flarf
8
100
AWP
  
9
0
“Livetweeting”
10
100
[yourauthorname].com
 
 
11
100
Working at Best Buy
12
0
Undergrad lit 101 adjunct
  
13
100
Editor-in-Chief online
14
0
Book Pic Facebook posts
 
 
15
0
‘is the author of’
16
100
bowties
  
17
100
“everybody has a story”
18
0
“show don’t tell”
 
 
19
0
‘is available for interviews’
20
100
following 1000s on twitter
  
21
100
Literary marriage
22
0
Child of famous author’s novel
 
 
23
100
NaNoWriMo
24
0
“What’s your novel about?”
  
25
0
shittily designed web journal
26
100
facebook updates on what u ate
 
 
27
100
Gordon Lish
28
0
Foot fetish
  
29
100
Emailing writing to strangers
30
0
Readings w/ tons of readers
 
 
31
0
Hating on Franzen
32
100
Hating on Safran Foer
  
33
0
Stories that ‘just have to be told’
34
100
Celeb fiction
 
 
35
100
Hating on NYer & subbing to NYer
36
0
Dream sequence w/ talking animal
  
37
100
'short-short' referring to whiskey consumption
38
0
Pandering for Amazon reviews
 
 
39
100
‘Curating’ a reading series
40
0
Crossing out yr name to sign book
  
41
0
Chapbook blurbs
42
100
Facebook political activism
 
 
43
100
Lit blogging at 35
44
0
Tweeting at 45
  
45
100
Calling anything u write an MS
46
0
Author photos
 
 
47
100
Constant Gmail chat visibility
48
0
Long audience questions
  
49
100
‘____ is dead’
50
0
nationwide invite to local event
 
 
51
100
horny professor on campus
52
0
Horny bro poet on Facebook
  
53
100
Trolling for typing errors on blogs
54
0
Constant facebook photo shift
 
 
55
100
Sewage Treatment Technologies
56
0
The Pulitzer Prize
  
57
100
Discussion of Gender in publishing
58
0
Discussion of Race in publishing
 
 
59
0
The Georgia Review
60
100
Dinner at Chili’s
  
61
0
Middle aged white male sex scene
62
100
Self published sci fi 4 part epic
 
 
63
100
‘Lyric essays’
64
0
Constant reports of students/grading
  
 
1
0
Magical Realism
4
100
Alcoholism
 
 
 
  
 
6
100
Super long live reader
8
0
AWP
 
 
10
0
[yourauthorname].com
11
100
Working at Best Buy
 
 
 
  
 
13
100
Editor-in-Chief online
16
0
bowties
 
 
17
100
“everybody has a story”
20
0
following 1000s on twitter
 
 
 
  
 
21
100
Literary marriage
23
0
NaNoWriMo
 
 
26
100
facebook updates on what u ate
27
0
Gordon Lish
 
 
 
  
 
29
0
Emailing writing to strangers
32
100
Hating on Safran Foer
 
 
34
100
Celeb fiction
35
0
Hating on NYer & subbing to NYer
 
 
 
  
 
37
100
'short-short' referring to whiskey consumption
39
0
‘Curating’ a reading series
 
 
42
100
Facebook political activism
43
0
Lit blogging at 35
 
 
 
  
 
45
100
Calling anything u write an MS
47
0
Constant Gmail chat visibility
 
 
49
0
‘____ is dead’
51
100
horny professor on campus
 
 
 
  
 
53
0
Trolling for typing errors on blogs
55
100
Sewage Treatment Technologies
 
 
57
0
Discussion of Gender in publishing
60
100
Dinner at Chili’s
 
 
 
  
 
62
100
Self published sci fi 4 part epic
63
0
‘Lyric essays’
 
 
 
 
4
Alcoholism
6
Super long live reader
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
11
Working at Best Buy
13
Editor-in-Chief online
 
 
 
 
17
“everybody has a story”
21
Literary marriage
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
26
facebook updates on what u ate
32
Hating on Safran Foer
 
 
 
 
34
Celeb fiction
37
'short-short' referring to whiskey consumption
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
42
Facebook political activism
45
Calling anything u write an MS
 
 
 
 
51
horny professor on campus
55
Sewage Treatment Technologies
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
60
Dinner at Chili’s
62
Self published sci fi 4 part epic
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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