Take Creek, For Example

by Chris Rugeley

At Take Creek, one of the most prestigious art schools in the United States, an unnamed photography major attends to study under Salter, a famous and perhaps out-of-his-mind professor whose works rivals that of Cindy Sherman and Garry Winogrand. When Salter asks his protégé to surveil Manning, the new transfer, as his final project, what follows is a wild, unpredictable last year of college full of drugs, nudity, shifting viewpoints, and the occasional making of art.

 

Like a novelized version of Art School Confidential, Chris Rugeley's Take Creek, For Example is a wry and empathic coming-of-age comedy about a young man finding himself through the lens of a camera, only to discover that the world around him is a carnival of absurdities.

238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2023

Reviews

[Sara]

Blurbed, with pleasure—

“The hammocks were everywhere, strewn about campus in formless abandon." Welcome to TAKE CREEK, the country's number one elite undergraduate art school with a price tag to match, and the larger-than-life setting of Chris Rugeley's whip-smart and wickedly funny send-up of the campus novel starring a day-glo cast of characters all pondering what kind of artist they want to be. With electric prose and rapid fire dialogue that will have you holding your ribs, Rugeley's dynamic debut is not one to miss.”