Sunday, June 5, 2011

I Am Not Myself These Days

#628
Title: I Am Not Myself These Days
Author: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Year: 2006
330 pages

Light in tone, though in content more despairing and absurd. It's essentially the memoir of a peculiar and failed relationship. While it was amusing in a sad way, compare to Burroughs's Dry for a different way of telling a tale of the city, relationships, gay culture, and substance abuse. While Kilmer-Purcell is more harrowing, Burroughs might be more vulnerably, and thus approachably, told. 

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