{"product_id":"bukowski-in-a-sundress-confessions-from-a-writing-life-9780143128465","title":"Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Somewhere between Jo Ann Beard's \u003ci\u003eThe Boys of My Youth\u003c\/i\u003e and Amy Schumer's stand-up exists Kim Addonizio's style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Refinery29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a secular Anne Lamott, a spiritual aunt to Lena Dunham.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Addonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road--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 \"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 Parkinson's at the end of her life; and her daughter, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for \u003ci\u003ePenthouse\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once intimate and outrageous, Addonizio's memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to love--and that new readers will not soon forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143128465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/09\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2016 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kim Addonizio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059670384821,"sku":"9780143128465","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fc109061-7fbc-4590-aff0-2c1d99adedbe.jpg?v=1690296762","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bukowski-in-a-sundress-confessions-from-a-writing-life-9780143128465","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}