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Somewhere between Jo Ann Beards The Boys of My Youth and Amy Schumers standup exists Kim Addonizios style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality. Refinery29Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a secular Anne Lamott, a spiritual aunt to Lena Dunham. BooklistA dazzling, edgy, laughoutloud memoir from the awardwinning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and moreKim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as Charles Bukowski in a sundress. (Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu? she muses.) Now, in this utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age.Addonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the roadfrom a champagneandvodkafueled onenight stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like What Writers Do All Day, How to Fall for a Younger Man, and Necrophilia (that is, sexual attraction to men who are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinsons at the end of her life; and her daughter, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse.At once intimate and outrageous, Addonizios memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and eversexy grittiness that her fans have come to loveand that new readers will not soon forget.
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Somewhere between Jo Ann Beards The Boys of My Youth and Amy Schumers standup exists Kim Addonizios style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality. Refinery29Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a secular Anne Lamott, a spiritual aunt to Lena Dunham. BooklistA dazzling, edgy, laughoutloud memoir from the awardwinning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and moreKim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as Charles Bukowski in a sundress. (Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu? she muses.) Now, in this utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age.Addonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the roadfrom a champagneandvodkafueled onenight stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like What Writers Do All Day, How to Fall for a Younger Man, and Necrophilia (that is, sexual attraction to men who are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinsons at the end of her life; and her daughter, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse.At once intimate and outrageous, Addonizios memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and eversexy grittiness that her fans have come to loveand that new readers will not soon forget.
