FIRST YOU FLOP
Speaking to the graduates of Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut, author Amanda Filipacchi urged them to embrace failing if they wanted to succeed.
Amanda Filipacchi is the author of four novels: Nude Men (Viking/Penguin 1993), Vapor (Carroll & Graf, 1999), Love Creeps (St. Martin’s Press, 2005), and The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty (W. W. Norton, 2015). Her fiction has been translated into 14 languages and been anthologized in The Best American Humor 1994 (Simon & Schuster),Voices Of the X-iled (Doubleday), and The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction (Berkley Books).