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'''Ghost Publishing''' is an anonymous publishing movement. The basic philosophy of the movement is in part derivative of the [[new criticism]] of the early part of the twentieth century. The new criticism held that a work should be treated as though it were contemporary and anonymous whether it was a text by [[Tacitus]] or [[Ernest Hemingway|Hemingway]]. The Ghost Publishers take the belief one step further and hold that works of literature are(contracted; show full)ring menacing to some recipients. Piggy-backing is the most controversial delivery method since there is some question as to its legality at least in some jurisdictions. Piggy-backing involves placing anonymous texts inside product packaging without the knowledge or approval of the manufacturer. Some popular items to piggy-back are cases of soft drinks, shoe boxes, and the inside pockets of sport coats.

There are antecedents to the Ghost Publishing including the American [[minicomic]] movement of the 1970
’s and 1980’s, the Soviet underground publishing phenomena [[Samizdat]], and the hand to hand distribution of many [[Beat generation|Beat]] manuscripts of the 1940’s and 1950’s many of which were circulated in typescript for more than ten years before eventually being published. The collections of various [amateur press associations]  of the United States may serve in some respects as a model for the physical primitivism of the typical ghost published text. The central mainstream literary idol of the movement not surprisingly is [[Jorge Luis Borges]] whose [[Ficciones]] serve as a model for many of these anonymous writers.  

The movement is sometimes referred to by the term [[Guerilla Publishing]] which has been co-opted by more overground efforts to publicize small press and independent publications but the anonymous writers’ movement should not be confused with these efforts at viral marketing.

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