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So I have a story/essay/memoir in the recently released anthology The Time of My Life: Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones, and Debauchery of The Prom
The book is described by Amazon thusly:
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Remember the ill-fitting tuxes, regrettable dresses, wilting corsages, cheap beer, and rented limos that marked the biggest, most-anticipated celebration of the school year? Remember when the whole world hung in the balance of just one night? Well, lots of your favorite writers do too, and they share the good, the bad, and the embarrassingly ugly in this wonderful compendium of personal reminiscences about prom night.
Rob Spillman has collected the prom memories of Cintra Wilson, Walter Kirn, Steve Almond, Samantha Dunn, Susie Bright, Mike Albo, and many others, capturing the magic, the misery, and the atrocious attire in a hilarious look at the simultaneously sublime and ridiculous event that has become the American right of passage.
Whether prom night is something you fondly remember or long to forget, The Time of My Life will bring it all back, capturing with wit and poignancy precisely what it was like to be young, hormonal, and dressed like a butler or bridesmaid.
My contribution to this is the strange story of my own Queens Catholic high school senior prom, and my day-after-prom breakup, which centered on a series of allegations made against me in list format on loose-leaf paper and written in curlicue handwriting and purple ink. Besides my tale, friends of ebog Rachel Resnick, Susie Bright and Samantha Dunn also share various unvarnished, adolescent truths, and the whole thing is masterfully edited by Tin House editor Rob Spillman, who I completely have to thank for the hook-up. (Thanks, Rob!)
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