Christopher Miller 
Cardboard Universe 
A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank

Genius or fraud? Hack or Hemingway? The life and work of obese, obsessive, logorrheic pulp novelist Phoebus K. Dank have long enflamed bitter controversyand numerous drunken rants often culminating in vomiting, unconsciousness, or both. In this uproarious novel, Christopher Miller pulls back the curtain on two unforgettable criticsfawning scholar William Boswell (the world’s leading Dankian) and his mortal enemy, the murderously snarky Owen Hirt. No stone is left unturnedand no gooey mess unstepped inin this essential study of Dank’s all-too-brief existence and all-too-extensive oeuvre.