I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir

"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

"Absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt." --Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City

The New York Times 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 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" (Washington Post).

Author: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 02/07/2006
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.30w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780060817329

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/05/2005 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2005 pg. 1266
Library Journal 02/15/2006 pg. 125
Booklist 02/01/2006 pg. 10
Entertainment Weekly 02/10/2006 pg. 140
Booksense '76 March 2006 03/01/2006 pg. 1
Lambda Book Report 06/01/2006 pg. 19

About the Author
Kilmer-Purcell, Josh: -

Josh Kilmer-Purcell is the bestselling author of the memoir I Am Not Myself These Days and the novel Candy Everybody Wants, and the star of Planet Green's documentary television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. He and his partner, Brent Ridge, divide their time between Manhattan and the Beekman Farm.