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Intimacy Idiot / Isaac Oliver.
Van Pelt Library PS3615.L5848 Z46 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oliver, Isaac, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oliver, Isaac.
- Dramatists, American--21st century--Biography.
- Dramatists, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 274 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015.
- Summary:
- This bighearted collection of personal essays, stories, and riffs on finding love and intimacy in New York City announces the arrival of a "monstrous new talent" (New York Magazine) in the vein of David Sedarts, Augustan Burroughs, and Tina Fey. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Online Dating Profile 1
- How I Didn't Learn to Drive 4
- Subway Diary 14
- The Dolphin from Dubai 16
- Cooking for One 25
- People's Parties 26
- Love Poem for the Guy across from Me on the Subway This Morning 30
- Poser 32
- Subway Diary 43
- My Kind of Bar 47
- Zoo Stories 49
- Coming Up 64
- A Few Key Erotic Moments from My Early Adolescence 66
- Subway Diary 79
- Love Poem for the Tall Drink of Water Who Shushed the Loud Gay Guys next to Me at a Concert 83
- Traveling Alone 86
- Cooking for One 91
- Dates 92
- Scene from a Box Office 103
- Subway Diary 105
- Triptych 109
- Some Scattered Thoughts on Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Marion, Massachusetts 114
- Subway Diary 118
- The Horny New York Poem 121
- The White Russian 124
- Scene from a Box Office 126
- Home Invasions 128
- Cooking for One 135
- Love in the Time of Eczema 136
- Subway Diary 139
- Ah Ah 141
- Love Poem for the Fair-Haired Young Man Doing the New York Times Crossword Puzzle 145
- Where I Live 148
- Go Together Like a Horse and Carriage 156
- Things I Know to Be True 162
- A Curse 165
- The Law Student 166
- Love Poem for the Preppy Guy with the Single Cupcake 170
- Cooking for One 172
- Casual Sex Correspondence 173
- How to Build a Fire (in Thirty Easy Steps) 175
- The Hockey Player 180
- The Lonely Christmas Poem 186
- Try It 191
- Box Office Hall of Shame 193
- Ails 196
- Obit for a Murse 203
- Subway Diary 205
- Over the Knee 208
- Texts from My Parents on Their Cruise 211
- Attend This Tale of Icy Gays 212
- Cooking foe One 216
- Big Ben 217
- Scene from a Box Office 226
- Love Poem for the Hot Young Dad Holding the Newborn on the Subway 228
- Judged 229
- Subway Diary 242
- The Dark Place 246
- Where Is Your Shakespeare? 248
- Love Poem for the Classiest Gay Guy on Avenue A 250
- The Rural Northwestern Ohio Tragedy Tour 254
- The Woodsman 256
- Love Poem for the Couple in the Honeymoon Stage across from Me on the Subway 269.
- ISBN:
- 9781476746661
- 1476746664
- 9781476746678
- 1476746672
- OCLC:
- 893668811
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