The Double Life Is Twice as Good

Wildly original novelist, essayist, and performance artist Jonathan Ames delivers a hilarious, risqué, and loveable selection of articles, essays, and fiction, including several previously unpublished pieces.

In The Double Life Is Twice as Good, fans will be treated to a deft and charming compilation of Ames's journalism, personal essays, and short fiction. Featuring illuminating profiles of Marilyn Manson and Lenny Kravitz, his adventures at a goth festival in the Midwest, a story written for Esquire on a napkin, as well as a comic strip collaboration with graphic artist Nick Bertozzi, Ames's unique style and personality-driven humor shines throughout this wickedly funny collection. Also included is the short story, "Bored to Death," a Raymond Chandler-esque tale about a struggling writer-turned-detective who becomes quickly embroiled in the search for a missing college co-ed, which inspired the HBO series of the same name. Described by The Portland Oregonian as "an edgier David Sedaris," Ames will have you hooked with this brilliant collection.

Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 07/14/2009
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781439102336


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2009
Publishers Weekly 05/11/2009 pg. 40
Booklist 07/01/2009 pg. 21
Library Journal 07/15/2009 pg. 98

About the Author
Jonathan Ames is also the author of I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, Wake Up, Sir!, I Love You More Than You Know, and The Alcoholic. He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs and is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has had two amateur box- ing matches, fighting as "The Herring Wonder" and lives in Brooklyn, New York.