{"title":"Derek Pell","description":"\u003cp\u003eDerek Pell (b. December 9, 1947) is an American writer, satirist, visual artist, and photographer, the author of more than forty books across experimental fiction, parody, art, and nonfiction. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and began his working life as a press photographer for United Press International in 1974; his photographs and prose have since appeared in roughly 300 newspapers and magazines in the United States and Europe, among them The Times of London, Rolling Stone, Interview, Village Voice, Fiction International, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Pell also publishes under the pen name Norman Conquest; JEF keeps that pseudonymous work in the separate \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/collections\/norman-conquest\"\u003eNorman Conquest\u003c\/a\u003e room, because the two personae publish different kinds of book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnder his legal name Pell built a body of deadpan parody and constraint. He wrote the \u003cem\u003eDoktor Bey\u003c\/em\u003e series (1977 to 1981), attributed to a fictional scholar, including \u003cem\u003eDoktor Bey's Suicide Guide\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDoktor Bey's Book of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Marquis de Sade's Elements of Style\u003c\/em\u003e, which runs a writing handbook through Sade; the rewritten-erotica \u003cem\u003eX-Texts\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eAssassination Rhapsody\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also written straight-faced absurdist manuals, including \u003cem\u003eShoot To Thrill: A Hard-Boiled Guide to Digital Photography\u003c\/em\u003e (Que, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJEF Books published \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/products\/naked-lunch-at-tiffanys\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch at Tiffany's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2015), a collection of satirical texts that reimagines the major works of classic and contemporary erotica, from the Kama Sutra to \u003cem\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/em\u003e, with an introduction by Nile Southern. It is the legal-name companion to the Norman Conquest titles JEF carries, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/products\/what-is-art\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Is Art?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/products\/mofa-the-museum-of-fungible-art\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMOFA: The Museum of Fungible Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart with \u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch at Tiffany's\u003c\/em\u003e for Pell's parody method aimed at a single target.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"naked-lunch-at-tiffanys","title":"Naked Lunch at Tiffany's","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch at Tiffany's: Erotic Classics Reimagined\u003c\/em\u003e takes a single target and works it end to end: the erotic canon. Derek Pell rewrites and roasts the major works of classic and contemporary erotica, from the Kama Sutra to \u003cem\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/em\u003e, as a sequence of satirical texts. Nile Southern, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Candy Men\u003c\/em\u003e, supplies the introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is part of a parody line Pell has run for decades. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAssassination Rhapsody\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eDoktor Bey\u003c\/em\u003e satires, and the method here is the same: hold the form of the source straight while the content goes sideways, one canonical work at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Derek Pell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39350598369437,"sku":null,"price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8480\/5533\/products\/naked-lunch-at-tiffanys.png?v=1641450673"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/collections\/derek-pell\/short-fiction.oembed","provider":"The Journal of Experimental Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}