Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition

Claire Squires is Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling. Her publications include Marketing Literature: the Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain and as co-editor The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Vol 7: The Twentieth Century and Beyond. With Beth Driscoll, she is co-founder of Ullapoolism. Beth Driscoll is Associate Professor of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Her books include The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (2014) and, with Kim WiIlkins and Lisa Fletcher, Genre Worlds (2022). With Claire Squires, she is the co-founder of Ullapoolism.

“This not-quite-so-hardboiled neo-noir potboiler is your all-access all-in pass to the backrooms and afterparties of the sprawling Frankfurt Book Fair. But Driscoll and Squires’ Kabuff is more than just a cabinet of curiosities: the essays and accumulated ancillary material combine to create a seriously playful and playfully serious exploration of the often inscrutable world of the international book trade, where language, commerce, and cultural capital all collide. With fiction, criticism, and discourses on method all part of the exhibit, all that’s missing is the Prosecco.” – Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (2021)“The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition is a refreshingly joyful and playful intervention in the book history and publishing studies worlds, showing what can be gained from applying academic tools to an experimental creative literary exercise. The serious purpose of this work is that the experimental techniques open up a way of talking about power dynamics, politics, and identity that can otherwise remain unaddressed. We need this kind of innovation, irreverence, and inspiration.” – Claire Battershill, author of Women and Letterpress Printing: Gendered Impressions (2022)“A remarkable scholarly volume …. It wields the tools of high theory, at the conflux of art and philosophy, to expand the possibilities of humanities and social sciences research. A perfect accompaniment for a glass of wine and a sausage while waiting for a train at the Hauptbahnhof.” – Prof. Dr. Theobald Jürgen Marx-Voss von Adorno, author of numerous books “I have read everything worth reading about the Frankfurt Book Fair and the school named after it. And now I have read this book, too. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition is a mash-up: Bookfair Murders meets The Russia House meets Dialektik der Aufklärung. A masterpiece!” – a publishing insider

• Part IIntroduction The Frankfurt Kabuff as Creative Critique ∼ Beth Driscoll and Claire SquiresPart IIThe Annotated Text of The Frankfurt Kabuff: A Beatrice Deft (Comic Erotic) Thriller ∼ Blaire SquiscollPart IIICritical EssaysGenesis ∼ Kim WilkinsUnplugging the Circuit: Historical Perspectives on Why Scholars Think Writing and Reading Books is the Easy Part ∼ Leslie Howsam Rectangularity and The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Ian Gadd Signature Cocktail: Negronis as Method in The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Julie Rak The Frankfurt Kabuff and the Historical Sociology of the Detective Genre ∼ Bridget Fowler Tinker, Tailor, Driscoll, Squires: Book Fairs and Liberal Bookism in The Russia House and The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Mark BanksRomancing Book Culture ∼ Sarah BrouillettePolitics at Play in the Kabuff: The Buchmesse as a Political Space ∼ Corinna Norrick-RühlCharting a Path for Social Change, One Negroni at a Time: The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Doris Ruth Eikhof A Frankfurt Memoir (inspired by The Frankfurt Kabuff) ∼ Arpita Das OuFiPo: Hypothetical Film Criticism (or Kabuff! The Film Musical) ∼ Elizabeth Ezra How to Take Over a Book Fair: A Bourdieusian Fiction ∼ Roanna Gonsalves Tagging Beatrice: Fanfic as Reader Response ∼ Danielle Fuller Kabuff or Wunderkammer? ∼ Kelvin Smith Teaching The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Alastair Horne Part IVAssemblagesOriginal Plot Diagram drawn by Kim Wilkins at the Frankfurt HauptbahnhofParatextual Elements of The Frankfurt Kabuff Print on Demand Edition“Dear Diary”: An Account of the Production of the Print on Demand Self-Published Edition of The Frankfurt KabuffAdvanced Information (AI) Sheet for The Frankfurt KabuffPublisher’s Weekly Report on Linksphilosophie Verlag List LaunchConference Abstract: Tante Fran’s Book Club: Solidarity, Slogans and Knitting NeedlesThe Kabuff Joke BookComic Strip featuring Nunu and OtotSpotify PlaylistsMap from The Frankfurt Kabuff“The Corona Kabuff” and Other StoriesAcknowledgementsBibliographyContributor Biographies