Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life

Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life

â€œSomewhere between Jo Ann Beardâ€™sÂ The Boys of My YouthÂ and Amy Schumerâ€™s stand-up exists Kim Addonizioâ€™s style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality.â€Â â€”Refinery29

â€œAlways vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a secular Anne Lamott, a spiritual aunt to Lena Dunham.â€Â â€”Booklist

A dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more
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Kim 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 â€œCharles Bukowski in a sundress.â€ (â€œWhy not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?â€ 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.
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Addonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the roadâ€”from a champagne-and-vodka-fueled one-night stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like â€œWhat Writers Do All Day,â€ â€œHow to Fall for a Younger Man,â€ and â€œNecrophiliaâ€ (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 Parkinsonâ€™s at the end of her life; and her daughter, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written forÂ Penthouse.
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At once intimate and outrageous, Addonizioâ€™s memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to loveâ€”and that new readers will not soon forget.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-06-21

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-06-21

Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life

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