I Am Not Myself These Days

<p><strong>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. -- Clive Barker</strong></p><p><strong>Absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt. --Armistead Maupin author of <em>Tales of the City</em></strong></p><p>The <em>New York Times</em> 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 <em>The Fabulous Beekman Boys</em>. 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 <em>The Bucolic Plague</em>--in <em>I Am Not Myself These Days</em> with plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight (<em>Washington Post</em>).</p>