I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly - a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals. . . a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a terrifically gifted new literary voice who straddles the divide between absurdity and normalcy, and stitches them together with surprising humor and lonely poignancy. As Booklist raved "as tart and funny as a Noel Coward play, for Kilmer-Purcell is especially good at dialogue, and, as in Coward's best plays, under the comedy lies the sad truth that even at our best, we are all weak, fallible fools. Again and again in this rich, adventure-filled book, Kilmer-Purcell illustrates the truth of Blake's proverb, 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.'"

I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Historical

Harper-perennial

From the critically acclaimed author of I Am Not Myself These Days comes the very odd adventures of a starry-eyed young man from the Midwest seeking fame and fortune in the flamboyant surreality of New York, Los Angeles . . . and everywhere in between.
Jayson Blocher is tired of worshiping pop culture; he wants to be part of it. So he's off, accompanied by an ever-changing cast of quirky extended family members, on an extremely bumpy journey from rural Wisconsin to a New York escort agency for Broadway chorus boys, to a Hollywood sitcom set. Somewhere out there his destiny awaits—along with the discovery of first love, some unusual coincidences, a kidnapping mystery . . . and the sobering truth that being America's sweetheart can leave a very sour aftertaste.

Candy Everybody Wants

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

I Am Not Myself These Days

Memoirs

Corgi Adult

BANTAM PRESS (TWLD)

BANTAM PRESS

Humor & Satire

Harper

The Precious Little Snowflake

Brent Ridge

Drag Queen

Capricorn

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