Niche - A Memoir in Pastiche - Momus

Niche: A Memoir in Pastiche by Momus / ISBN 9780374144081 / 315-page hardcover from FSG / discontinued & discounted / the copies I'm selling have a remainder dot on the bottom page block, but are otherwise nice first editions / the library marks are part of the cover design *** Nick Currie, otherwise known as Momus - named for the ancient Greek god of mockery, and described by The Guardian as "the David Bowie of the art-pop underground" - has recorded more than 30 albums, published half a dozen works of speculative fiction, and written articles for The New York Times, Wired, Artforum, Frieze, and The Wire.  Because Niche isn't any old showbiz memoir. Rather than writing a single sincere, avuncular tell-all in his own voice, Momus has structured the narrative of his life as a typically atypical mockery of the rock-biography oral history. Instead of using living witnesses, Momus assumes the voices of 217 dead authors and artists and forces them to speak for and about him. From these