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Founded in 2006, Gone Lawn™ has two purposes:
1. To raise awareness of the progressive and nonconventional literary artists writing today, and how their work can be accessed. We aim to make this sort of work, wherever we can find it, more visible and accessible to an audience who is seeking more stimulating fiction but is not finding it.
2. To establish and sustain a social force of progressive, nonconventional literary artists and their promoters, in order to withstand and drive back the corporate-engendered resistance against us, which has so far proven stronger than us individually, and the entire audience collectively. We understand that phrases such as "literary establishment" and "marketability" are in fact fallacies intended to simplify the market. But literature is not a cheap commodity, nor is it a clearly defined substance which provides either of two given parties with a definite and clear end result; it is art, and art is a jumpy thing, which is very much interested in confusion. Through confusion, we grow, as individuals, as a society. By means of Gone Lawn, we intend to advance a widespread American awareness of the true, progressive nature of humanity and of literary art. It is in this way that we seek to save American literature, the most stagnant of the artistic media, and therefore American society.
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