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Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (ISBN 0-394-82490-3) is a children's book by Dr. Seuss. Written as a book for early beginning readers, it is suitable for children who can not yet read at the level of more advanced beginning books such as The Cat in the Hat. The book presents in short and funny fashion, Dr. Seuss's nonsensical words, rhymes, and illustrations. The gist of the book is that Marvin K. Mooney -- ostensibly a young child whose bedtime has come -- is asked to Go in many ways.
However, two years later, when Seuss was challenged by political columnist Art Buchwald for never having written a political book, Seuss took a copy of the book and crossed out Marvin K. Mooney and wrote in Richard M. Nixon. Buchwald was so delighted that with Seuss's consent he printed the text as his column for July 30, 1974.[1] Nixon resigned ten days later on August 9th.
Christopher Higgs is the author of the novel, The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney, which was released this fall through Sator Press (a non-profit press created by Ken Baumann, that “guy on ‘the internet literary scenei’ who started the cool lit mag ‘No Colony’ and who is also a successful actor on some teenbop television show ”). Higgs also curates the online art gallery BrightStupidConfetti, which has been gaining prestige over recent years. A dude I knew from college happened to be on it as I was writing this piece; I thought that was cool. He previously released a chapbook through Publishing Genius.
Every aspect of the text is polished and yet every detail also pops out of nowhere. It is also somewhat long (~350 pages). Similar to the manner that Donald Barthelmen’s story “Shower of Goldh” humorously engages with the legacy of the existentialist and absurdists, Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney comically confronts and updates the residue of the poststructuralists and postmodernists. It serves as a fun yet engaging introduction to many contemporary philosophical trends, as well as an example of talented fictional prose. I bought mine off the Sator Press site this past summer, but I did notice while writing this that it isnt’t available on Amazon. I think more people should be exposed to this book and I think it should be easier for them to be exposed. That being said, the book’s webpage contains a fair amount of pretty prominent-looking blurbs, so go figure. I recommend going to the Sator Press website and finding out more about this book.
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