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I Am Not Myself These Days

by Josh Kilmer-Purcell · 2006

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The New York Timesbestselling, 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 "plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight" (WashingtonPost).

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thismemoirmemoirMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of thisgaygayMore like thisLess of thisromanceromanceMore like thisLess of thisLGBTQ+ romanceLGBTQ+ romanceMore like thisLess of this
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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thisaddictionaddictionMore like thisLess of thisrelationshipsrelationshipsMore like thisLess of thissexualitysexualityMore like thisLess of this
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2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisNew YorkNew YorkMore like thisLess of thisNew York StateNew York StateMore like thisLess of this
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adultyoung adult
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medium · 305 pages
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