Randy

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"This book is fucking awesome. It' s my life' s story. I' m thirty-four but look twenty-one. Maybe twenty-two at the most. I live in Maryland. Please read it. I' m a writer, a songwriter, an artist. I do it all. I' m an artist of life. I' m an adventurer, I' m the president of my development. Read the memoir. You won' t be disappointed. " A self-published memoir of a Maryland thirty-something found by author Mike Sacks at a garage sale in 2019 and re-published here for the first time. The memoir is written by the struggling poet and novelist Noah B. , who is embedded in the mind and lifestyle of a perversely unexceptional American asshole named Randy. Like Pale Fire if it were about a Danny McBride-style fuckup, the story is both unmoored from time and eerily prescient of our own-one so stupid and unbelievable that it requires a writer like Sacks to bring it to light. "If you don' t know who Mike Sacks is, well, you should. His writing is funnier than just about anyone' s and now he has a podcast that is excellent. I say Hooray for Mike Sacks and everything he stands for. " -David Sedaris "He' s the best kind of comedy writer; a bona fide weirdo with virtually no interest in satisfying anything other than his own personal obsessions. " -Andy Richter "Randy is a hilariously, unexpectedly poignant and eminently worthy addition to Sacks' sociological/anthropological exploration of the American Jackass and his curious ways. Audacious and inspired. " -Nathan Rabin "The year' s best memoir is about a man who shot a porno in a Baskin-Robbins. " -Vice "Randy does more to explain certain unexpected turns in this nation' s political fate over the last couple of years than a bazillion think-pieces in the New York Times, Atlantic, New Yorker, MSNBC. " -John Colapinto (The New Yorker) "As the book' s description alludes, Randy is an experiment in memoir, biography, and, well, sheer insanity. " -Robobutt