{"product_id":"9780143128465","title":"Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a secular Anne Lamott, a spiritual aunt to Lena Dunham.” \u003ci\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e               \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011685531888,"sku":"9780143128465","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143128465_p0.jpg?v=1763657625","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143128465","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}