Are You Headed Straight For Failure, Friend? Ah, it looks like Karl Stevens got there first. – Books Blog – The Austin Chroniclehttp://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/books/2013-09-05/are-you-headed-straight-for-failure-friend/Karl Stevens knows from failure, hell yes, especially if it involves getting drunk and working as an art-museum security guard and crashing on dirty couches and suffering through the kind of romantic relationships a person can suffer through on the way to (one hopes) eventual true love & emotional fulfillment or, you know, whatevs.