5/24/2023 0 Comments How I Learned to Snap by Kirk ReadIn this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male-a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family a sissy an insecure teenager desperate to disappear and an obsessive writer-performer, drawn to compulsions of alcohol, sex, reading, spending, work, and art as a means to cope and heal.Īs an artist whose work focuses on our preconceived notions about the body, Michael questions the very notion of what it means to be human. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. A memoir about fathers and sons, breaking out of gender norms, and reconciling with a dangerous childhood.
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