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[wickedflea]

I'm trying to remember the name of a book and author, and it's driving me nuts. I have the book and have read part of it, but it's misplaced right now. It's very similar to David Sedaris--funny, sort of memoiry but nutty personal essays. In fact Sedaris has a blurb on the back cover. One of the early essays involves the author going on a camping trip (I think), and he hates it because he's not the outdoor sort. I think he's gay (not because of the outdoor thing, just because I think he mentions it in the book). And I want to say there was another one about working in an ice-cream parlor, and he talks about the King of Greece or some shit. The cover of the paperback (dunno about the cloth) is red, with a one-word title (I think) scrawled across it in a faux-scandlous manner. I was thinking the word was "naked," but that can't be it because that's the Sedaris book. Arrgggh. Any help?

update: whew, found it. David Rakoff's Fraud. Thought I was never going to remember. Thanks zoe!

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[zoe.livejournal.com]

could it be this book?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

YES!!! Thank you! You are the king-hell asskicker. Now if I could just find the stupid book around my house. Any ideas?

[zoe.livejournal.com]

What about looking under the bed? Sometimes at night when I am too tired to get out of bed I put a book on the floor and it slides under there... or under the couch or... under a great pile of papers on the kitchen table (that would be where I would look at my house...because apparantly all paper comes to my kitchen table to die)...

Or... the closet floor. I find great treasures there!

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[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

All good ideas! The floor underneath my bed tends to eat books too, and my kitchen table is a similar mess of paper. And I very well could have grabbed it up with a bunch of shirts or something and thrown it toward the clothes basket in the closet! :)

Anything I can do to help!

[zoe.livejournal.com]

Its a waste to not have fine reading at your fingertips!