Title: Saving the world solo
First published: 2004
Description: A pithy and laugh-tickling memoir about growing up and wrestling with one's purpose, identity and coping style. The back cover description describes it well: 

What do you get when you mix a childhood forged in the boozy-hazed post-war partying of the 50s -- replete with Lenny Bruce recitations at age eight -- with an "adulthood" as a college-hopping educational film actress, boy-guru disciple, L.A. song-writer, night club comedienne and prison school teaching artist? You get a feeling-centric, language-obsessed Cleveland refugee who has an epiphany and decides to save the world with:

a humble offering of delusions of grandeur
flashbacks and forward thinking
wit and wisdom
formidable foibles
unrelenting challenge to the resigned intransigence of the status quo
run-on sentences
wild stories, mostly true.
Subjects: world saving, psychology, control
Places: Cleveland, Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Los Angeles
Time periods: 1951 - 1999
LC classification: PS3569.A233 S63 2004