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Intimacy Idiot
Intimacy Idiot
Intimacy Idiot
Audiobook6 hours

Intimacy Idiot

Written by Isaac Oliver

Narrated by Isaac Oliver

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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From an award-winning playwright “who splits the difference between David Rakoff and Larry David” (New York magazine)—a “compulsively readable debut” (Time Out New York) of big-hearted, laugh-until-you-can’t-breathe essays, stories, and riffs on finding love and intimacy in New York City.

Since moving to New York a decade ago, award-winning writer and performer Isaac Oliver has pined for countless strangers on the subway, slept with half the people in his Washington Heights neighborhood, and observed the best and worst of humanity from behind the glass of a Times Square theater box office. Whether he’s hooking up with a man who dresses as a dolphin, suffering on airplanes and buses next to people with Food From Home, or hovering around an impenetrable circle of attractive people at a cocktail party, Oliver captures the messy, moving, and absurd moments of urban life as we live it today. In this uproariously funny debut collection, he serves up a comedic cornucopia of sketches, vignettes, lists, and diaries from his life as a young, fanciful, and extremely single gay man in New York City.

“Oliver has mastered the art of self-deprecation...he can find humor and heart in the unlikeliest of places,” raves Entertainment Weekly. Culled from years of heartbreak, hook-ups, and more awkwardness than a virgin at prom and a whore in church (and he should know because he’s been both), Intimacy Idiot chronicles Oliver’s encounters with love, infatuation, resilience, and self-acceptance that echo our universal desire for intimacy of all kinds.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 2, 2015
ISBN9781442387003
Author

Isaac Oliver

Isaac Oliver is an award-winning writer and performer. He has read stories in the How I Learned Series, Dead Darlings, The Soundtrack Series, Real Characters, Naked Radio, and On This Island. Intimacy Idiot is his first book.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This was a fun, delightful, naughty, but very sweet journey through the authors most personal thoughts and moments. It made me smile.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I read this book based on a comment about it in the NY Times. It is memoir in the David Sedaris style. Oliver uses a lot of casual sex in his essays and if that bothers you then you may want to skip it. On the other hand, it is very funny and contains some great writing and good insights dealing with being a gay single man in New York. His longer pieces at the end of the book were the best and if he could have maintained this quality throughout, I would have rated it higher. May give him a try in the future.