Life & CultureNewsFyre Fest’s Billy McFarland is writing a bookHe also seems to think the festival has a chance of ‘happening again’ShareLink copied ✔️May 4, 2019Life & CultureNewsTextThom Waite With the Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland in jail and the last of the festival’s merch being auctioned off, you’d be excused for thinking that the whole disaster is over. At the same time, it kind of feels like we’ll never get those images of wet mattresses and soggy cheese sandwiches out of our minds, and that’s definitely not going to be helped by the fact that McFarland is working on a book chronicling the event: Promythus: The God of Fyre. According to NY Mag, McFarland wants to set the record straight and has been reaching out to various editors for the book. One of these editors is Josh Raab, who recalls being told by McFarland’s girlfriend: “Last month, two documentaries came out about the Fyre Festival but unfortunately both misrepresented the real events and Billy would like to share his story.” How exactly the convicted serial fraudster would make the events that unfolded over influencer’s social media accounts back in 2017 seem any better is unclear, and he’s already missed his projected publishing date of late April. Apparently he estimates that Promythus will come in at around 800 handwritten pages. He’s been writing the whole book in longhand, sending it as letters from prison (kind of like Oscar Wilde, but worse in presumably every way). And why the rush to get it published? Well, McFarland allegedly hinted at the reason in emails to Raab, writing: “Putting in terms of Wolf of Wall Street, the Festival will not be a one and done event – it’s happening again, so the original story will lose the potential to be told and set the stage if it’s not done before the next events take place.” Well, that’s something to look forward to, isn’t it? Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORECould ‘Bricking’ my phone make me feel something?Love is not embarrassing ‘We’re trapped in hell’: Tea Hačić-Vlahović on her darkly comic new novelChris Kraus selects: What to do, read and watch this monthWe asked young Americans how their job search is goingHannah Botterman and Georgia Evans are championing queerness in rugbyScientists are now making computers out of human brains1 in 4 men believe no one will ever fall in love with them BacardiCalling photographers: We want to see your dancefloorsAngel and Armani are a real TikTok love storyChloe Kelly: ‘A lot of people don’t like confidence in a woman’What is the ‘forehead kiss of doom and despair’?