From comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb, comes a music-filled, coming-of-age memoir about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas. In the summer of 1989, three Goth kids crossed a street in San Antonio. They had no idea that a deeply confused fourteen-year-old boy was watching. Their dyed hair, fishnets, and eyeliner were his first evidence of another world-a place he desperately wanted to go. He just had no idea how to get there. Somehow David Crabb had convinced himself that every guy preferred French-braiding his girlfriend's hair to making out, and that the funny feelings he got watching Silver Spoons and Growing Pains had nothing to do with Ricky Schroeder or Kirk Cameron. But discovering George Michael's Faith confirmed for David what every bully already knew: he was gay. Surviving high school, with its gym classes, locker rooms, and naked, glistening senior guys, would require impossible feats of denial. What saved him was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being outsiders. David found himself enmeshed with misfits: wearing black, cutting class, staying out all night, drinking, tripping, chain-smoking, idolizing The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, and Joy Division-and learning lessons about life and love along the way. Richly detailed with 80s pop-culture, and including black and white photos throughout, BAD KID is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is poignant. Crabb's journey through adolescence captures the essence of every person's struggle to understand his or her true self.

Bad Kid - A Memoir

J'aimerais trouver une façon créative d'écrire un livre qui incorpore chaque chanson en mode Depeche.

Il était important pour moi que le livre n'ait pas commenté d'être un adolescent, mais se sentait plutôt comme une histoire racontée par un adolescent.

J'adore créer des nouvelles individuelles dans les chapitres, mais je veux m'améliorer pour construire des récits cohérents du début à la fin.

Je pense que la fabrication de tout art nécessite un certain degré d'anxiété élevée et d'abandon total.

La moitié du monde est inférieure à la moyenne et cela ne s'améliorera pas.

Des années de narration en direct et de jeu de personnages m'ont aidé à construire des emplacements et des scènes vifs.

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