Listen, I have been educated.I have learned about WesternCivilization. Do you knowWhat the message of WesternCivilization is? I am alone.This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of Cool For You and Chelsea Girls captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 198[...]

Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire's gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city--wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antisept[...]

A Portrait Of The Artist-American As A Young Woman; From the ever-popular author of Chelsea Girls and Not Me, a masterpiece of a novel that rewrites the picture of what fifty years of female life looks like today; Cool For You is a darkly comic novel that traces the downbeat progress of an Irish-Ame[...]