How to Fail in Literature

"What should be a man‟s or a woman‟s reason for taking literature as a vocation, what sort of success ought they to desire, what sort of ambi-tion should possess them? These are natural questions, now that so many readers exist in the world, all asking for something new, now that so many writers are making their pens "in running to devour the way" over so many acres of fools-cap. The legitimate reasons for enlisting (too of-ten without receiving the shilling) in this army of writers are not...