Self-sabotage And other ways I've spent my time

The author of two well-received YA novels, Self turns to an adult audience with this excellent memoir-in-stories that begins with his life as a spoiled rotten little boy and concludes with his present life, living in New York and working as a writer and actor. It's been a bit of a bumpy ride. Self discloses the three years he spent as a sex worker and provides a candid assessment of his manic depression with narcissistic tendencies, which has compromised many aspects of his still-young life (he's in his late thirties). Then there's his self-loathing, obsessions (which led to a restraining order from a former boyfriend), breakups, breakdowns, and his frequent habit of self-sabotage. Happily, there are sunnier moments too. Self writes of his love for his grandmother and for his husband Augie. He reminisces about the Tony Award--winning actor Gary Beach and his husband, who befriended Self as a lonely teenager. Self is a very clever writer (he writes of "stocking up love like canned goods"; someone is "as smooth and tanned as a Grecian olive farmer"), and there's never a dull moment in his captivating, extremely well-written stories that will have readers hoping for more.