The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition

Claire Squires, Beth Driscoll

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
26 September 2023

Creative writing & creative writing guides; Literary studies: general; Literary companions; Publishing industry

When violence breaks out at the stands of far-right publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beatrice Deft is provoked into action. An alienated Australian high school teacher who finds herself at the centre of the global book industry, Beatrice encounters a cast of characters including the very hot Caspian Schorle (German police officer), Kurt Weidenfeld (left-wing German publisher), and White Storm (a neo-Nazi publishing organisation).

Such is the premise of The Frankfurt Kabuff, a comic erotic thriller about the publishing industry originally self-published under the pseudonym Blaire Squiscoll. With The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition, Blaire Squiscoll is revealed as the pen name of Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, who created the novella in the midst of fieldwork at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Published for the first time as a full critical edition, this experimental, playful work combines critical and creative modes for new perspectives on the publishing industry and creative economies.

The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition enriches the novella with an introduction, annotated text, 15 essays by leading scholars and practitioners, and additional creative assemblages. This highly unusual research project offers insights for students, academics and publishers alike.

Edited by: Claire Squires, Beth Driscoll
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781771125987
ISBN 10: 1771125985
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 26 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I Introduction The Frankfurt Kabuff as Creative Critique ∼ Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires Part II The Annotated Text of The Frankfurt Kabuff: A Beatrice Deft (Comic Erotic) Thriller ∼ Blaire Squiscoll Part III Critical Essays Genesis ∼ Kim Wilkins Unplugging the Circuit: Historical Perspectives on Why Scholars Think Writing and Reading Books is the Easy Part ∼ Leslie Howsam Rectangularity and The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Ian Gadd Signature Cocktail: Negronis as Method in The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Julie Rak The Frankfurt Kabuff and the Historical Sociology of the Detective Genre ∼ Bridget Fowler Tinker, Tailor, Driscoll, Squires: Book Fairs and Liberal Bookism in The Russia House and The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Mark Banks Romancing Book Culture ∼ Sarah Brouillette Politics at Play in the Kabuff: The Buchmesse as a Political Space ∼ Corinna Norrick-Rühl Charting a Path for Social Change, One Negroni at a Time: The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Doris Ruth Eikhof A Frankfurt Memoir (inspired by The Frankfurt Kabuff) ∼ Arpita Das OuFiPo: Hypothetical Film Criticism (or Kabuff! The Film Musical) ∼ Elizabeth Ezra How to Take Over a Book Fair: A Bourdieusian Fiction ∼ Roanna Gonsalves Tagging Beatrice: Fanfic as Reader Response ∼ Danielle Fuller Kabuff or Wunderkammer? ∼ Kelvin Smith Teaching The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Alastair Horne Part IV Assemblages Original Plot Diagram drawn by Kim Wilkins at the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof Paratextual Elements of The Frankfurt Kabuff Print on Demand Edition “Dear Diary”: An Account of the Production of the Print on Demand Self-Published Edition of The Frankfurt Kabuff Advanced Information (AI) Sheet for The Frankfurt Kabuff Publisher’s Weekly Report on Linksphilosophie Verlag List Launch Conference Abstract: Tante Fran’s Book Club: Solidarity, Slogans and Knitting Needles The Kabuff Joke Book Comic Strip featuring Nunu and Otot Spotify Playlists Map from The Frankfurt Kabuff “The Corona Kabuff” and Other Stories Acknowledgements Bibliography Contributor Biographies

Claire Squires is Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling. Her publications include Marketing Literature: the Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain and as co-editor The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Vol 7: The Twentieth Century and Beyond. With Beth Driscoll, she is co-founder of Ullapoolism. Beth Driscoll is Associate Professor of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Her books include The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (2014) and, with Kim WiIlkins and Lisa Fletcher, Genre Worlds (2022). With Claire Squires, she is the co-founder of Ullapoolism.

Reviews for The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition

“This not-quite-so-hardboiled neo-noir potboiler is your all-access all-in pass to the backrooms and afterparties of the sprawling Frankfurt Book Fair. But Driscoll and Squires’ Kabuff is more than just a cabinet of curiosities: the essays and accumulated ancillary material combine to create a seriously playful and playfully serious exploration of the often inscrutable world of the international book trade, where language, commerce, and cultural capital all collide. With fiction, criticism, and discourses on method all part of the exhibit, all that’s missing is the Prosecco.” – Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (2021) “The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition is a refreshingly joyful and playful intervention in the book history and publishing studies worlds, showing what can be gained from applying academic tools to an experimental creative literary exercise. The serious purpose of this work is that the experimental techniques open up a way of talking about power dynamics, politics, and identity that can otherwise remain unaddressed. We need this kind of innovation, irreverence, and inspiration.” – Claire Battershill, author of Women and Letterpress Printing: Gendered Impressions (2022) “A remarkable scholarly volume …. It wields the tools of high theory, at the conflux of art and philosophy, to expand the possibilities of humanities and social sciences research. A perfect accompaniment for a glass of wine and a sausage while waiting for a train at the Hauptbahnhof.” – Prof. Dr. Theobald Jürgen Marx-Voss von Adorno, author of numerous books “I have read everything worth reading about the Frankfurt Book Fair and the school named after it. And now I have read this book, too. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition is a mash-up: Bookfair Murders meets The Russia House meets Dialektik der Aufklärung. A masterpiece!” – a publishing insider