The Millions Originals

The Millions, an online magazine offering coverage on books, arts and culture, is now publishing original ebooks on a variety of unusual topics.

Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever

By Mark O'Connell

“‘There’s no success like failure,’ Bob Dylan once sang – but he couldn’t have envisaged the international notoriety that bad art would achieve in the digital age. Mark O’Connell’s Epic Fail gleefully hops genres and centuries in a quest to understand our obsession with lameness. Clever, profound, bitingly funny, it’s a brilliant analysis from one [...]

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