LOVE, LOSS, AND LONGING IN THE AGE OF REAGAN: DIARY OF A MAD CLUB GIRL
by Iris
Dorbian
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BLURB:
It's
the early 1980s, MTV is in its infancy, the Internet does not exist, Ronald
Reagan is president and yuppies are ruling Wall Street. Edie is a naïve NYU
student desperate to lose her virginity and to experience adventure that will
finally make her worldly, setting her further apart from her bland suburban
roots. But in her quest to mold herself into an ideal of urban sophistication,
the New Jersey-born co-ed gets more than she bargained for, triggering a chain
of events that will have lasting repercussions.
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Excerpt
Two:
Although the music underwhelmed me, what was unfolding
outside, the cascading sensory overload, transfixed my 15-year-old self. The
streets of Greenwich Village were ablaze with an inferno of activity and
electricity. Everywhere you turned was a kaleidoscope of memorable images:
daredevil roller-bladers zigzagging through the labyrinthine corners and
alleys; musicians plying their wares; artists selling their crudely daubed but
oddly alluring paintings; young people converging in excited knots of
conversation, craning their necks to find the next stimulus; and bohemians
displaying their home-made jewelry and crafts on tables to rubbernecking tourists.
The pulse of the area was so vibrantly alive it sent the
blood rushing through my adolescent veins. I needed to be here. I needed to
experience the rest of my youth here. Forget Fair Lawn. Forget the insular,
homogenous comfort of Bergen County. Forget the malls. I have to be here. I
MUST get here.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Iris Dorbian
is a former actress turned business journalist/blogger. Her articles have
appeared in a wide number of outlets that include the Wall Street Journal,
Reuters, Venture Capital Journal, DMNews, Playbill, Backstage, Theatermania,
Live Design, Media Industry Newsletter and PR News. From 1999 to 2007, Iris was
the editor-in-chief of Stage Directions. She is the author of “Great Producers:
Visionaries of the American Theater," which was published by Allworth
Press in August 2008. Her personal essays have been published in Blue Lyra
Review, B O D Y, Embodied Effigies, Jewish Literary Journal, Skirt! Diverse
Voices Quarterly and Gothesque Magazine.
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
Iris Dorbian
will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter
during the tour.
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