"Maggie Estep is a noted spoken word artist. Estep has published seven books, Diary of an Emotional Idiot, Soft Maniacs, Love Dance of the Mechanical Animals, Hex, Gargantuan, Flamethrower, and Alice Fantastic. Hex, the first book in Maggie's trilogy of crime novels, was chosen by The New York Times as a notable book of 2003. Estep has also recorded two spoken word CD's, No More Mr Nice Girl and Love Is a Dog from Hell. She has given readings of her work at cafes, clubs, and colleges throughout the US and Europe and has also performed her work on ""The Charlie Rose Show,"" MTV, PBS, and HBO's ""Def Poetry Jam"". Her writing has appeared in The New York Post, Self Magazine, Village Voice, New York Press, Harpers Bazaar, Spin, and Nerve, as well as in dozens of anthologies. She lives in upstate New York."
"""Diary of an Emotional Idiot ""is a coming-of-age novel as it might be trod by steel-toed boots and slippled by hypodermics; it's a roman a clef featuring sex and chains, same-sex sex, sex in rehabs, and ridiculously compulsive abuse of multiple partners; it's a primitive, joyous mess of a cartoon book about! the way some people live now, and it should infuriate nine out of ten lovers of heartfelt, carefully wrought novels about rural life. Be in on the controversy."""