'Multiple allusions from literary classics are woven into his postmodern narrative as he sends up digimodernism and the shallowness of the desire for fame. Dante, Conan Doyle, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell and other literary heavyweights rebel against the author. As a maverick publishing person, I relished the way Bestseller pokes fun at literary pretentiousness, humbug and bookish aspirations.
"The earth rotated around PR and everything could be sold including me, you, him, her, it, us and them."
Pierre jumps from the 147th floor of a building in Dubai ("the city built out of almost nothing"), and is welcomed into Literary Hell by Dante and Ceberus. He achieves what he could not in his life: his books fly off the shelves, critics pontificate and readers go wild on social media. He is deified. Hell turns out to be a surprising place. Writers are punished in myriad ways, especially "for the clich
