The Griggsville Society

By Nash Keune

A campus novel made up of entries its main character, Phineas Sullivan, leaves in his commonplace book. From the back cover: "When Oscar Wilde was touring America, he noticed that the French and Spanish had left behind all these honeyed, mellifluous city names. But the English had come up with uniformly, shockingly ugly names, the apogee of which, to him, was a city in Illinois named Griggsville. Imagine being from a place called Griggsville. Being raised in Griggsville, going to school at Griggsville Central, settling down with a wife and kids in Griggsville. Coming home from an exhausting journey and pining for the familiar comforts of good old Griggsville. How grisly Wilde said that he agreed to speak in Griggsville, but only on the condition that they change their name. In his essay on America, he imagined what would happen if, by chance, some spark suddenly struck in Griggsville and it became the center of some artistic movement, a movement which would presumably take its name from its birthplace. It's everywhere. You simply cannot escape the influence of the Griggsville Movement.In this piece, we can see all of the hallmarks of the style historians call High Griggsville.His work had such a vibrant originality... well, until he fell in with those damn Griggsvillians.Can you imagine a name more gruesome than Griggsville?"We voted unanimously to call ourselves The Griggsville Society.*** You can read an extended excerpt of the text at: https: //www.patreon.com/posts/42112579.Cover art by Justin Crowder

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KBGP4BJ
• ISBN13: 9798691344039
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"