How to enliven a moribund establishment literary scene? Have two of America's trendiest untalented hipster writers engage in what they've pronounced as one of their favorite activities: Shoplifting!
Yes, upcoming, sponsored by The New Yorker magazine, is a Championship Shoplifting Bout between American lit's two most revered shoplifters, Tao Lin and Miranda July. Both, according to their own words, are well practiced at the famed upper class sport. Best of all is that neither needs the items they take. They're both well bred, from fairly affluent backgrounds, and as cherished Insider scribes lead comfortable lives. Which means they steal not from need, but from pure joy! This proves their well-applauded depravity.
The championship bout will consist of three five minute rounds. The setting is to be New York's Macys.
"Rules?" said one of the bout's organizers to Literary Circus. "We discussed whether to forbid kicking, biting, and gouging. But forbidding anything from these two would miss the point. As both contestants are completely unprincipled, we decided, 'Nah, why spoil the fun?'"
