Cat Marnell

Darkly humorous account of ex-beauty editor Cat Marnell, who suffered a narcotics addiction throughout her tenure as an intern and beauty editor for various publications including Allure, Nylon, and xoJane.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

A Memoir

From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a "vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic" (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.

At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America--and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was also a "doctor shopper" who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills; a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods; a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets; a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything--anything--to sleep.

This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and yes, self-tanner. It begins at a posh New England prep school--and with a prescription for the Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin. It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell's amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve. From the Condé Nast building to seedy nightclubs, from doctors' offices and mental hospitals, Marnell "treads a knife edge between glamorizing her own despair and rendering it with savage honesty....with the skill of a pulp novelist" (The New York Times Book Review) what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can't say no.

Combining "all the intoxicating intrigue of a thriller and yet all the sobering pathos of a gifted writer's true-life journey to recover her former health, happiness, ambitions, and identity" (Harper's Bazaar), How to Murder Your Life is mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary.

How to Murder Your Life

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The Beanie Baby Handbook

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The conception of this book was rather sudden. After creating one of his first abstract paintings, Psychè realized that there was more to that painting than canvas and paint. After being taunted by the painting, Psychè used a DSLR camera with an attached macro lens in order to blow up points of interest within that painting. This process would engulf his focus for the following months as he manipulated and analyzed every image as if searching for something. Until one day, the images started to speak. Each one began telling him a story of a deeper meaning of life. Philosophies of self-love, freedom, prosperity, and honesty to name a few, poured out from Psychè's mind onto the paper, eventually giving birth to this manuscript.This book will provide you with an intimate mirror of your life, and if you are ready, will transform any obstacle that is holding you back into a gentle push toward your ultimate divine destiny!

Expedition of the Psyche

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Andrey Psyche uses inspirations from daily moments, photographs, and drawings to compile this book of poetry. The Space Between Crescent Shadows accounts feelings of transformation, love, loss, and a mirroring of Psyche's own life.

One Lover's Account...

"Andrey Psychè's last book, "Expedition of the Psyche" explored translating a painting into words. This time around, Andrey Psychè used inspirations from the daily moments, photographs and drawings, to compile this book of poetry. While the aproach [sic] remained similar, the final result has taken a huge transformation, mirroring Psychè's own life" -- Page [4] of cover.

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A classic from thr Beat Generation. Like new.

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Classic fiction. Unmistakably autobiographical, this book is a moving account of a man coming to terms with his own myth, his own talent and his uncontrollable, unrelenting, self-destructive life. Now approaching middle-age, Jack Duluoz retreats to California to escape the pressures of his fame.

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