{"product_id":"book-bi5d","title":"Intimacy Idiot","description":"This big-hearted, laugh-until-you-can’t-breathe collection of personal essays, stories, and riffs on finding love and intimacy in New York City announces the arrival of a “a monstrous new talent” (\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine) in the vein of David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, and Tina Fey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this uproariously funny debut collection, award-winning writer and performer Isaac Oliver serves up a comedic cornucopia of sketches, vignettes, lists, and diaries from his life as a young, fanciful, and \u003ci\u003eextremely\u003c\/i\u003e single gay man in New York City. Whether he’s hooking up with a man who dresses as a dolphin, suffering on airplanes and buses next to people with Food From Home, or hovering around an impenetrable circle of attractive people at a cocktail party, Oliver captures the messy, moving, and absurd moments of urban life as we live it today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince moving to New York a decade ago, Oliver has pined for countless strangers on the subway, slept with half the people in his Washington Heights neighborhood, and observed the best and worst of humanity from behind the glass of a Times Square theater box office. He also rode the subway during Breastfeeding Awareness Week and lived to tell the tale. Culled from years of heartbreak, hook-ups, and more awkwardness than a virgin at prom and a whore in church (and he should know because he’s been both), \u003ci\u003eIntimacy Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Oliver’s encounters with love, infatuation, resilience, and self-acceptance that echo our universal desire for intimacy of all kinds.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347405840688,"sku":"BDbi5d","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/243202-bi5d-Square.jpg?v=1734204938","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bi5d","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}