{"product_id":"bukowski-in-a-sundress","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more\u003c\/b\u003e\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.\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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50969152127264,"sku":"9780143128465","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780143128465.jpg?v=1764123031","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/bukowski-in-a-sundress","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}