LITTLE HOLLYWOOD BY JINNWOO
One of Dennis Cooper’s Favorite Books of 2019
“Little Hollywood never ceases to calmly sidestep expectation, to look again where other forms of ‘realistiC’ narrative so often balk, and therein, through an all-too-accurate simulation of the many awkward interfaces and sales pitches that comprise our daily life under late capitalism, to break down the horseshit dork ride that our lives as barely breathing 2D dolls has always been and always will be.” — Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million & Scorch Atlas
"Little Hollywood is among the most singular and exciting books I’ve experienced in years.”—Matthew Revert, author of Basal Ganglia and Human Trees
“Little Hollywood is a lot of things, it's snarky, awkward, unsettling, & inventive, but above all else it's a hell of a lot of fun.” — A.S. Coomer, author of The Fetishists and Memorabilia
“Little Hollywood blows my mind, how perfectly funny and sad, silly and deep it is. I almost can’t believe how special and good of a book it is” — Big Bruiser Dope Boy, author of Foghorn Leghorn and Your First Real Boyfriend & Other Poems
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***Sneak peek***
”The Protector of Small Things” on Gay Death Trance
3 Scripts on New York Tyrant
”Avril Lavigne CD.” in Blue Arrangement’s Lazy Susan 1
ABOUT LITTLE HOLLYWOOD
It’s open audition day at the Little Hollywood talent agency. Lights on, camera ready, assemble your dolls! Inspired by the paper doll classics, Little Hollywood is a modern take on storytelling. The text is a collection of short scripts for B-team actors who will be auditioning for finger-numbing roles that are as uncomfortable as they are hilarious. Jinnwoo (Ben Webb) is a writer, musician, and visual artist. This is his first literary collection.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jinnwoo is a writer, musician, and visual artist from Leicester (UK), currently living in Brighton (UK). He released a solo record Strangers Bring Me No Light in 2016 on Cargo Records, as well as records with British Folk groups Bird in the Belly (GF*M Records), and Green Ribbons (Matiere Memoire Records). His vocals also featured on Kyla La Grange’s second album Cut Your Teeth (Sony Records) and Ben Walker’s debut solo record Echo (Folk Room Records).
As a visual artist, Jinnwoo has produced work for the likes of Island Records, Warner Records, Thirty Tigers Records, and has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, Beijing Today, Wonderland Magazine, Oh Comely Magazine and fRoots.
Little Hollywood is Jinnwoo’s debut book.
Advance Praise for Little Hollywood
From “contactless sex” in 2050 to a “computer uprising” not quite “as spectacular as you might think” in 3000, the range of possibility slyly stuffed into the radiant miniatures comprising Little Hollywood never ceases to calmly sidestep expectation, to look again where other forms of “realistic” narrative so often balk, and therein, through an all-too-accurate simulation of the many awkward interfaces and sales pitches that comprise our daily life under late capitalism, to break down the horseshit dork ride that our lives as barely breathing 2D dolls has always been and always will be.
— Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million & Scorch Atlas
“Little Hollywood forbids passivity. It inspires the reader to embody myriad roles as each slice-of-existence script buttresses against the next. With these seemingly simple tragicomic scenarios, Jinwoo reveals a complex truth – we are all actors becoming whatever character the situation dictates. We exist as dispersed fragments, and only by grouping these fragments together can we understand who and what we are. Little Hollywood is among the most singular and exciting books I’ve experienced in years.”
—Matthew Revert, author of Basal Ganglia and Human Trees
Little Hollywood is a lot of things, it's snarky, awkward, unsettling, & inventive, but above all else it's a hell of a lot of fun. Jinnwoo gives us a cast of disparate characters, the illustrated paper dolls are a riot!, and a strange well of scenes to draw from. You'll be smirking, cutting, and pasting in no time.
— A.S. Coomer, author of The Fetishists and Memorabilia
Little Hollywood blows my mind, how perfectly funny and sad, silly and deep it is. I almost can’t believe how special and good of a book it is. I read it twice in a week, and look forward to reading it again.”
— Big Bruiser Dope Boy, author of Foghorn Leghorn and Your First Real Boyfriend & Other Poems
ISBN: 978-1-948687-13-3 (ebook)
ISBN: 978-1-948687-14-0 (paperback)