In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist’s life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of how one young writer managed to shrug off the imposition of a rigid cultural identity.
Told in Myles’s audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate by their lyrical language, Chelsea Girls weaves together memories of Myles’s 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, their volatile adolescence, their unabashed ‘lesbianity, ‘ and their riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s and 80s New York.
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One of the most important and beloved radical icons of American letters, Eileen Myles has been described as ‘one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature’. They have published twenty books of poetry, art journalism, fiction, plays and libretti, and recently appeared in the hit US TV series Transparent.She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers’ grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize, the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing and was named to the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List in 2015.Myles lives in Marfa, Texas, and New York. Visit her website at www.eileenmyles.com.
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