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2011 Giving Project
Help the "HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH" stay happy!
The author and publisher will donate an unprecedented 50% of proceeds from the sale of BLANK to help support the
Vanuatu Pacifica Project and Tanna Center for the Arts, a project founded by Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky
a novel by Davis Schneiderman
"I received my copy of BLANK yesterday, and began reading it last night in bed. I am accustomed to reading a few pages from a book, then turning out the light as soon as I become drowsy. But BLANK was a different experience: I could not put it down until I had read it from cover to cover. And now it is burned in my memory. I feel certain it is a book I will read again and again." – H. L. Hix, National Book Award poetry finalist
ART: orginal art by Susan White
SOUND: original music by Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky (LISTEN NOW)
Davis Schneiderman's 200-page novel, Blank, contains only compelling chapter titles. The story is – as it always has been – up to the reader. White-on-white pyrographic images are by notable artist Susan White. The fine art edition is shrink-wrapped and enclosed in a wooden box that is fully encased in plaster and can be opened with a pull-tab. Once opened, the box cannot be re-encased. Music will be composed and performed by renowned experimental hip hop musician, Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky. Learn more about Vanuatu Pacifica Project here.
BLANK pages signed & hand-inscribed by the author and signed & burned by the artist, for a one-of-a-kind preorder copy.
"Help fortify global understanding of one another and the changes we face together." –Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky
This book helps preserve a culture, an environment, and a future for the arts. Half of our proceeds from the sale of this book help support the The Vanuatu Pacifica Project and Tanna Center for The Arts. The Project is a 14.8-acre off-the-grid artists' retreat, cultural preservation and technological education space. Its site is situated on the island of TannaÕs northern up-country, in the archipelago of Vanuatu.
Black and White Edition
(above) page spreads of Blank, with pyrographic art by Susan White.
DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN is a multimedia artist and writer and the author and editor of eight books, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern) and Abecedarium (Chiasmus) and the forthcoming blank novel, Blank: a novel (Jaded Ibis); the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game (Nebraska); as well as the audiocollage Memorials to Future Catastrophes (Jaded Ibis). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing. He can be found, virtually, at www.davisschneiderman.com.