Please: Fiction Inspired by The Smiths

By Peter Wild

As he did with Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, editor Peter Wild has pulled together an eclectic list of talented writers who take their cue from one of the world’s best loved bands—The Smiths. Please is sure to please fans of The Smiths, Morrisey, and guitarist Johnny Marr—as well as contributors such as Nic Kelman, Willy Vlautin, and Catherine O’Flynn.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Mar 2, 2010
• ISBN: 9780061978470

Peter Wild

Peter Wild is the editor of a series of fiction anthologies based on the songs of rock and pop bands. His articles and fiction have appeared in The Independent (London), The Guardian (London), The Big Issue, Word Riot, NOÖ Journal, and 3:AM magazine.

Reviews for Please

[sublunarie · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Almost entirely shit. Ask, Shoplifters Of the World Unite, and Cemetry Gates are the stand-outs. Everything else is mediocre to terrible. Most notably, Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others by Jenn Ashworth which is inexcusable. Imaging hating fat people so much that you 1) purposely choose this song just so you can write about how much you hate them and 2) live out your fantasy of setting a fat woman on fire while she sleeps. On the plus side, I've now found an artist more intolerable than Morrissey himself.

[sixteendays · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Almost entirely shit. Ask, Shoplifters Of the World Unite, and Cemetry Gates are the stand-outs. Everything else is mediocre to terrible. Most notably, Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others by Jenn Ashworth which is inexcusable. Imaging hating fat people so much that you 1) purposely choose this song just so you can write about how much you hate them and 2) live out your fantasy of setting a fat woman on fire while she sleeps. On the plus side, I've now found an artist more intolerable than Morrissey himself.