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Camden Joy is the pseudonym of American writer and musician Tom Adelman. Joy is the author of six books—including ''The Last Rock Star Book or Liz Phair: A Rant '' and ''Lost Joy,'' a collection of stories, pamphlets, and posters. In 1991, Adelman accompanied The David Lowery Band as they toured the country, first by Greyhound and later in the van as the band’s roadie. Adelman then spent several years researching David Lowery’s previous band, Camper Van Beethoven, interviewing band members, roadies, fans, producers, managers, videographers. Dissatisfied with the result, he started it over under the name Camden Joy. The result was a novel that included accounts of both The David Lowery Band’s road trip and Camper Van Beethoven’s break-up.〔 Much later, in 2000, Harper Collins published the novel as ''Boy Island'' under its Quill imprint.〔("Boy Island" ). ''Publishers Weekly''.〕 In 1994, Camden Joy wrote two tracts (“Lost Pamphlets”) entitled ''The Greatest Record Album Ever Told'' and ''The Greatest Record Album Singer That Ever Was''. Joy moved from Los Angeles to New York in 1995, and attained a brief notoriety for his New York City postering projects and street manifestos. ''The Lost Manifestoes of Camden Joy'' were wheat-pasted around Manhattan and Brooklyn throughout the last months of 1995. ''This Poster Will Not Never Change Your Life'' 〔{ was a multi-poster project in 1996, as was the collaborative ''Dear CMJ...'' Joy’s final act of street postering occurred in the summer of 1997 when he unveiled the collaborative ''Fifty Posters About Souled American.'' Joy's essays, which were a combination of music criticism, memoir, and fiction, appeared in a number of periodicals, including the Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, San Francisco Weekly, and McSweeney's and on This American Life. After hearing Liz Phair’s ''Exile in Guyville'' in 1993, Joy wrote a novel, ''The Last Rock Star Book or Liz Phair: A Rant'', in response.〔("5 obscure music novels you need to read" ). ''FasterLouder''.〕 Verse Chorus Press published the novel in 1998. In 2001, three new novellas by Joy were published by Highwater Books: ''Palm Tree 13'' , ''Pan'', and ''Hubcap Diamondstar Halo''.〔("Camden Joy Book Review" ). ''Portland Mercury'', By Katia Dunn 〕 An excerpt of the latter appeared in “Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002” edited by Dave Eggers. In 2002, Joy’s self-published tracts were collected as ''Lost Joy,'' which also contains short stories, record reviews, essays, and all of his NYC street posters. The book was published by Seattle's TNI Books.〔("Of Joy and obsession" ). ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 ==Retrospective== On November 8, 2013, Joy appeared as the President's Keynote Speaker at the 55th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A roundtable on Joy's work was held the next day, entitled "Ode to Joy: The Career of Camden Joy." Participants included Samuel Cohen, Trinie Dalton, Ben Bush, David N. Meyer, and Adam Wilson. Each spoke to the value of Joy's (by now) largely-forgotten works. Earlier the same week, a panel discussion entitled "Majesty of Impulse: On the Great Lost Works of Camden Joy" occurred at Housing Works Bookstore in New York. Justin Taylor joined the discussion along with many of the Milwaukee participants, each explaining how they first discovered Joy's works. Camden Joy addressed this event, masquerading as Joey F. Scarneckio, a professional look-alike who'd been called in at the last minute to read Joy's prepared remarks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camden Joy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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