Failure biography
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Damm upends the usual fare of celebratory biographies of successful lives by finding inspiration in artists who tried and failed to change the world around them&#; It’s a heady concept at which he—ironically enough—wholeheartedly succeeds in accomplishing&#; [A] weird and engrossing volume.
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Funny, irreverent and urgent, FAILURE BIOGRAPHIES&#; method is best described as creative mayhem. Immerse yourself in this tribute to failure and embrace all it has to offer. Magnificent!
-Jack Halberstam, Author of THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE
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Excerpts from Failure Biographies have been published in The Adroit Journal, Another Chicago Magazine, Aquifer: The Florida Review, DIAGRAM, Drunken Boat, Entropy, Ink Brick, Nashville Review, Phoebe, Redivider, Sweet, and Western Humanities Review.
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History
[edit]– Formation, Comfort, Magnified extremity Fantastic Planet
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When twenty-one-year-old Michael Dell asked E. Lee Walker to be the president of his fledgling computer company, PC's Limited, Walker, in his mid-forties, immediately thought about all the people who had helped him through life—as an undergraduate at Texas A&M (class of'63), a graduate student at Harvard, and a once-young entrepreneur himself. As he and Dell created the foundation of what would become one of the most successful companies in the world, Walker was guided by the lessons of his past business ventures, by his belief in the power of imagination, and by his relationships with people who had provided encouragement when he most needed it. When he left Dell Computer Corporation to teach, Walker discovered that the stories he took with him—of his aspirations, of his failures and triumphs, and of his friends and mentors—were the key to engaging and inspiring his students.