Intimacy Idiot Audiobook (Free)

From an award-winning playwright “who splits the difference between David Rakoff and Larry David” (New York magazine)-a “compulsively readable debut” (Time Out NY) of big-hearted, laugh-until-you-can’t-breathe essays, stories, and riffs on finding love and intimacy in NEW YORK.

Since moving to NY a decade ago, award-winning writer and performer Isaac Oliver has pined for countless strangers within the subway, slept with fifty percent individuals in his Washington Heights neighborhood, and about Intimacy Idiot observed the best and worst of mankind from behind the glass of a Moments Square theater box office. Whether he’s starting up with a guy who dresses like a dolphin, struggling on airplanes and buses next to people who have Food From Home, or hovering around an impenetrable group of attractive people at a cocktail party, Oliver catches the messy, shifting, and absurd occasions of urban existence as we live it today. In this uproariously funny debut collection, he serves up a comedic cornucopia of sketches, vignettes, lists, and diaries from his existence as a, fanciful, and intensely single gay man in NEW YORK.

“Oliver has mastered the artwork of self-deprecation…he can find humor and heart in the unlikeliest of places,” raves Entertainment Weekly. Culled from years of heartbreak, hook-ups, and more awkwardness when compared to a virgin at prom and a whore in church (and he ought to know because he’s been both), Intimacy Idiot chronicles Oliver’s encounters with like, infatuation, resilience, and self-acceptance that echo our common desire to have intimacy of most kinds.