Intimacy idiot
By: Isaac Oliver
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781476746661; 9781476746678; 9781476746685
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies; American Dramatists; Biography
Description: The author uses sketches, vignettes, lists, and diaries to describe his life as a single gay man in New York, from his childhood to his many messy relationships.
Table of contents: title: Online Dating Profile; title: How I Didn't Learn to Drive; title: Subway Diary; title: The Dolphin from Dubai; title: Cooking for One; title: People's Parties; title: Love Poems for the Guy across from Me on the Subway This Morning; title: Poser; title: Subway Diary; title: My Kind of Bar; title: Zoo Stories; title: Coming Up; title: A Few Key Erotic Moments from My Early Adolescence; title: Subway Diary; title: Love Poem for the Tall Drink of Water Who Shushed the Loud Gay Guys next to Me at a Concert; title: Traveling Alone; title: Cooking for One; title: Dates; title: Scene from a Box Office; title: Subway Diary; title: Triptych; title: Some Scattered Thoughts on Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Marion, Massachusetts; title: Subway Diary; title: The Horny New York Poem; title: The White Russian; title: Scene from a Box Office; title: Home Invasions; title: Cooking for One; title: Love in the Time of Eczema; title: Subway Diary; title: Ah Ah; title: Love Poem for the Fair-Haired Young Man Doing the New York Times Crossword Puzzle; title: Where I Live; title: Go Together Like a Horse and Carriage; title: Things I Know to Be True; title: A Curse; title: The Law Students; title: Love Poem for the Preppy Guy with the Single Cupcake; title: Cooking for One; title: Casual Sex Correspondence; title: How to Build a Fire (in Thirty Easy Steps); title: The Hockey Player; title: The Lonely Christmas Poem; title: Try It; title: Box Office Hall of Shame; title: Ails; title: Obit for a Murse; title: Subway Diary; title: Over the Knee; title: Texts from My Parents on Their Cruise; title: Attend This Tale of Icy Gays; title: Cooking for One; title: Big Ben; title: Scene from a Box Office; title: Love Poem for the Hot Young Dad Holding the Newborn on the Subway; title: Judged; title: Subway Diary; title: The Dark Place; title: Where Is Your Shakespeare?; title: Love Poem for the Classiest Gay Guy on Avenue A; title: The Rural Northwestern Ohio Tragedy Tour; title: The Woodsman; title: Love Poem for the Couple in the Honeymoon Stage across from Me on the Subway; title: Acknowledgments.