Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life

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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
Author	Kim Addonizio
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780698408913
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Penguin Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
NumberOfPages	215
PublicationDate	2016-06-21
Publisher	Penguin Books
ReleaseDate	2016-06-21
Studio	Penguin Books

Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life

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