Patrick Wensink’s “Broken Piano for President” and the Art of Ripping Off

Yes, I bought the Patrick Wensink novel. The one called Broken Piano For President. Yes, this is the novel that Jack Daniels decided was copyright infringement. Yes, the copy I bought still has that cover. No, I did not know of Wensink before this recent explosion of national attention. But, yes, I had heard of Lazy Fascist press (HEY PPL GOOGLING “LAZY FASCIST PRESS” and “PATRICK WENSINK”–BUY SAM PINK & SCOTT MCCLANAHAN, TOO, THEY’RE TOTALLY WORTH IT) before all of […]

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