Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hollow and ...Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hollow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it.