The Writers' Block
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A weekly podcast featuring writers of all stripes reading from their recent work.
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Jennifer Blowdryer provides Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages.
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About Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages
"If you're getting evicted, do nothing for 24 hours. When I'm getting evicted I dress casually for my date with housing court..."
A compendium of useful tips, Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages will increase your chances for success in every imaginable field. Jennifer Blowdryer has located exactly the right team of experts to help her out with the writing. They interview tattooists, for example, about what tattoo they'd rather quit the business than do again. "Yosemite Sam" was the reply. There's a delicious article on how to survive prison. And there's a good article about how to run up credit cards and abscond without paying your bills, for there is no debtor's prison in America. Editor Blowdryer provides the best advice herself, however, and she has her own take on everything from the Gabor Sisters to why you should never say anything bad to one person in a couple about the other. She has lived a thousand lives, and with this book you will gain admission into the secret sanctorum of her inner brain, where her heart and her conscience often go to pay their respects. You'll have some good laughs, but better than that you will be confronted with someone very special, a pure soul like one of the characters in an old Robert Bresson movie.
Purchase Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages online (at manicdpress.com).
Jennifer Blowdryer started screaming in a punk band called the Blowdryers in 1979, San Francisco. That's where she got her dumb name from, which she prefers to Jennifer Waters, her slave name. After all, anybody can just get born, but keeping a band together and staying raw is an accomplishment. Her first book, Modern English, was a photo illustrated dictionary with chapters on Lounge Lizards, Cholos, and Drugs. In NYC, she started running Smut Fests in a lap dancing parlor in 1988, mixing sex workers with street performers. Her play White Trash Debutante just finished a run at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, and in her latest book, Good Advice for Young Trendy People of all Ages, she hosts a party of the people some call freaks, and you'll like it.
Visit Jennifer Blowdryer's web site (at jenniferblowdryer.com)>
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