Caca Dolce

Praise for Caca Dolce Martin's book of essays is funny and searching, shockingly honest and relentless in its exploration of her own life, yes, but also just life in general . . . It's a wild ride of a memoir, and a true glimpse into the mind of an artist as she's figuring out what life is all about. --NYLON (T)he author takes a hard look at her youth, chronicling the tumult and hardship that modern American life visits on the young, thanks mostly to the regrettable behavior of grown-ups who are scarcely grown themselves: ... it's the sort of thing with which any sensitive reader who has suffered through adolescence will feel sympathetic recognition. --Kirkus Reviews Martin, a writer who's earned a cult following with her books Mickey and Even Though I Don't Miss You, turns to nonfiction in her debut essay collection, bringing her irreverent voice to tales of childhood, crushes, art school and the California town she grew up in where people just can't seem to leave . . . If you can relate, pick this one up. --The Huffington Post This is my favorite book by Chelsea Martin and I've read every book by her and even published one. If David Sedaris were younger, hipper, and had once subscribed to Cat Fancy, he might write like this. --Elizabeth Ellen, author of Person/a Chelsea Martin delivers neon electric jolts of reality in deadpan perfection. Refreshing, hilarious, self-deprecating, as far from pretentious as you can get--you will find you're no longer alone with your weirdness after reading this book. Caca Dolce is righteous, painfully righteous. --Molly Brodak, author of Bandit Caca Dolce explores the discomfort, melancholia and absurdity of taking up space in the world when we aren't sure if we really deserve it. Deeply human--it's a lonely book that made me feel less alone. --Melissa Broder, author of So Sad Today I highly enjoyed Caca Dolce--a weird, funny, moving, complex memoir that's excitingly like if Diane Williams edited a 500-page novel down to 200 pages. --Tao Lin, author of Taipei Praise for Chelsea Martin Mickey (2016) Chelsea Martin continues to prove herself the preeminent chronicler of Internet age malaise and I fucking love it. Mickey takes her provocative poetry long form, weaving the tangled tale of a breakup that shouldn't be as confusing as it is. This has replaced Anne of Green Gables as my cozy times reading. Who the fuck knows what that says about me, but it says a LOT about the power of Chelsea's writing. --Lena Dunham Beyond superlatives but I'll use them anyway: intelligent, hysterical, elusive, an exquisite original. If you enjoy thinking, laughing, and self-loathing, read this book. --Chloe Caldwell, author of Women and I'll Tell You in Person Mickey is an arrestingly immediate and personal work. The experience is less like that of reading a traditional narrative, and more like flipping through the open tabs of the internet browser that is the nameless first-person narrator's brain. --Chicago Tribune Chelsea Martin's anxieties and thought processes, complex while stylistically concise throughout Mickey, were fun for me to read and think about. I felt amused by the way she seemed to reframe conventionally bleak thoughts and unexciting downgrades (job to no job, boyfriend to no boyfriend, bedroom to no bedroom) into refreshingly intricate and interesting musings. --Jordan Castro, Entropy magazine Even Though I Don't Miss You (2013) Martin's a brooding minimalist who is great on relationships, the choreography of neurosis, and the feedback loop between selfishness and self-abnegation --Vice Her deceptively relaxed prose perfectly captures the Facebook-guzzling void that constitutes modern heartbreak. --Lena Dunham, Wall Street Journal You know that emotion after a breakup, where you feel like you've been punched in the stomach? Martin somehow manages to capture it and wrap it up in a tiny book of words, except it's not depressing--we swear. --Nylon