Cultural Writing. Memoir. Moxley's detailed and lushly-written memoir is set largely in San Diego and follows her life thus far from childhood to m...
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Jan 10, 2009
Adam
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A strange book, really, constantly upending expectations, but never straying from a kind of journalistic truth. Hard to fit the messiness of life into such neat prose. This memoir/elegy reads like a very long, extraordinarily well written letter to a friend. A bit Proustian, except without the fiction part. Instead you get a very inside, almost gossipy, look at the life of a gifted poet. And, in the best part of the book, for this reader, inside the poetry circles of UCSD in the nineties. The od
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Apr 12, 2010
Mark
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Engagingly eccentric. Odd-flavored prose... and no, this time it's not those white Chinese peppercorns.
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