title: The Double Life Is Twice as Good: Essays and Fiction
author:  Jonathan Ames 
description: The double life of the writerthe doggedly functional outer persona surrounding the neurotic inner corecomes through in this sparkling if scattershot collection from New York's gonzo scribe. In his forays into lifestyle journalism, Ames (<i>Wake Up, Sir</i>) is perennially out of place whether among scary teens at a suburban gothic fest or vapid club hoppers in Manhattan's glitzy meatpacking district. He's ill at ease just being himself in memoiristic essays, from a European travelogue to an account of recent boxing stunts. His fictional alter egos are similarly out of their comfort zones; in the sly anti-noir Bored to Death, an Amesian writer poses as a PI and flounders when the lark becomes too real. As always, Ames's own bodily functions, baldness and angst take center stageAm I darker than Marilyn Manson? he broods in a profile of the goth pied piperalong with his graphic sex scenes, which play out as detached procedurals in which he self-consciously monitors his partners for signs of orgasm This miscellany contains some weak itemscollege diary entries?dredged out of a bottom drawer. But at his best, Ames still beguiles with his offbeat, defiantly hangdog sensibility. Photos. <i>(July)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: DOUBLE THE FUN
  TWO WAS BETTER THAN ONE
  JENIKA SNOW
  
  DOUBLE THE FUN
  By Jenika Snow
  www.JenikaSnow.com
  Jenika_Snow@Yahoo.com
  Copyright © August 2020 by Jenika Snow
  First E-book Publication: August 2020
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  Editor: Kayla Robichaux
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  CONTENTS
  Synopsis
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
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