Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame - Softcover

"As simple as Schott's Original Miscellany and equally effective."--Literary Review

"Full of the most achingly funny, endearing accounts of total humiliation."--Daily Mail (London)

"Robertson keeps the atmosphere light throughout, tagging delightful epigraphs onto every reminiscence."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"Entertaining reading. This is a jolly romp and will make a good stocking-filler for any authors of your acquaintance."--Sunday Times (London)

Robertson keeps the atmosphere light throughout, tagging delightful epigraphs onto every reminiscence. --Philadelphia Inquirer"

Entertaining reading. This is a jolly romp and will make a good stocking-filler for any authors of your acquaintance. --Sunday Times (London)"

As simple as Schott s Original Miscellany and equally effective. --Literary Review"

Full of the most achingly funny, endearing accounts of total humiliation. --Daily Mail (London)"

-Robertson keeps the atmosphere light throughout, tagging delightful epigraphs onto every reminiscence.---Philadelphia Inquirer

-Entertaining reading. This is a jolly romp and will make a good stocking-filler for any authors of your acquaintance.---Sunday Times (London)

Seventy letters written by some of today's most successful authors, including Margaret Atwood, Carl Hiaasen, Billy Collins, and Jonathan Lethem, relate their experiences of public humiliation, from a reading that was attended only by the writer's mother to a talk-show appearance that was upstaged by dysfunctional fellow guests. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.