Miss Misery
For the most part young bloggers have been content to tell their own stories, but Spin writer Andy Greenwald cast a historian’s eye on them in 2003 with his first book, Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo. Now he’s spun the same source material, and all those feelings, into his debut novel, a bildungsroman titled Miss Misery.
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If one character torn by his dual obsessions with himself and his desire to have sex with girls is good, goes the logic, how could two characters like that not be great? Possibly because “evil” David, an allegedly archetypal metrosexual man-slut, lists among his bad-boy qualities the use of hair gel and the wearing of leather pants. The suspension of disbelief needed to accept the straight-faced introduction of anyone’s doppelganger requires a basis in reality, and I just don’t believe that a guy wearing leather pants can score with a hip, fashion-conscious 23-year-old chick in this day and age.
When: Thu 1/19, 7:30 PM
