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A collection of short stories.
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About the Author:
Barry Yourgrau is a writer and performance artist. He is also the author of Mess: One Man’s Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act as well as Haunted Traveller, Wearing Dad’s Head, and The Sadness of Sex, which was adapted into a movie in which he stars. He and his work have appeared on MTV’s Unplugged: Spoken Word and NPR’s All Things Considered and Selected Shorts, among others. He lives in New York City.
Review:
A real comic gift. An identifiable world vision composed of considerable sadness, hilarity, compassion, terror, and sexual longing.” New York Times Book Review
Yourgrau writes like a modern-day Morpheus with a rapier wit.” Entertainment Weekly
Yourgrau deserves to be read and reread, preferably at bedtime. This man’s imagination evokes the Victorian hallucinations of Lewis Carroll. Hilarious, frightening, sometimes bawdy.” Boston Pheonix
I can never remember my dreams, so Mr. Yourgrau’s stories are a pretty good substitute.” David Byrne
Reading Barry Yougrau is addictive, like putting peanuts in your nose and they turn into spaceships or something.” Roy Blount Jr.
Barry Yourgrau manages to articulate your most bugged out daydreams.” Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys
Yourgrau writes like a modern-day Morpheus with a rapier wit.” Entertainment Weekly
Yourgrau deserves to be read and reread, preferably at bedtime. This man’s imagination evokes the Victorian hallucinations of Lewis Carroll. Hilarious, frightening, sometimes bawdy.” Boston Pheonix
I can never remember my dreams, so Mr. Yourgrau’s stories are a pretty good substitute.” David Byrne
Reading Barry Yougrau is addictive, like putting peanuts in your nose and they turn into spaceships or something.” Roy Blount Jr.
Barry Yourgrau manages to articulate your most bugged out daydreams.” Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys
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- PublisherArcade Publishing
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1611451035
- ISBN 13 9781611451030
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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