I Am Not Myself These Days

"e;A glittering, bittersweet vision of an outsider who turned himself into the life and soul of the party. Kilmer-Purcell's cast is part freak-show, part soap-opera, but his prose is graced with such insight and wit that the laughter is revelatory, and the tears-and there are tears to be shed along this extraordinary journey-are shed for people in whom everybody will find something of themselves. In a word, wonderful."e; - Clive Barker"e;Absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt."e; Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the CityThe New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoir of a young New Yorker's daring dual life advertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night was a smash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular Planet Green television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. His story begins here before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gathered honeys, before his memoir of the city mouse's move to the country, The Bucolic Plague in I Am Not Myself These Days, with "e;plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight"e; (Washington Post).