Short Synopsis
Josh Kilmer-Purcell's I Am Not Myself These Days is a hilarious memoir that chronicles a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly from a gifted new literary voice.

Full Synopsis
I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly—a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a terrifically gifted new literary voice who straddles the divide between absurdity and normalcy, and stitches them together with surprising humor and lonely poignancy. As Booklist raved, I Am Not Myself These Days is "as tart and funny as a Noël Coward play, for Kilmer-Purcell is especially good at dialogue, and, as in Coward's best plays, under the comedy lies the sad truth that even at our best, we are all weak, fallible fools. Again and again in this rich, adventure-filled book, Kilmer-Purcell illustrates the truth of Blake's proverb, 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.'"

"As tart and funny as a Noël Coward play." ---Booklist

"[Listeners] will find this tale of good-boy-turned-bad-drag-queen darkly hilarious and entertaining." ---Library Journal

"A wonderful book, a ridiculous book, a sad and beautiful book, a book I'll read again, a book I highly recommend." ---James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces