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  <title>The Double Life Is Twice as Good: Essays and Fiction</title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sure, he's already done a couple of other books like this (essays, articles, fiction that seems like real life) but Ames is just so good at it. Besides the painfully familiar and hilarious stories about his love life and weird friends, some of the best highlights here come from the journalism chapters, where Ames immerses himself into another celebrities life--like Marylin Manson or Lenny Kravitz. It would be great to someday read a whole book of these kind of profiles by Ames. Oh--and you also get the cool story, Bored to Death, which is the basis for the new HBO show that Ames is behind. Jonathan Ames is great. You can't go wrong with him.<br/>]]></body>
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