"Hilarious, bizarre, intricate, poignant, piercing, startlingly honest, eye-poppingly funny, and ultimately, to the reader's surprise and delight, a book not about lust but very much about love, mysterious and miraculous. A riveting book."
"A gloriously inventive, funny, piercing memoir of coming of age in a small Sierra town in the sixties. Using as a foil a pornographic potboiler set in the town, the author develops a wide range of feeling and observation--creative nonfiction at its best."--Suzannah Lessard, author of "The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family"
"Hilarious, bizarre, intricate, poignant, piercing, startlingly honest, eyepoppingly funny, and ultimately, to the reader's surprise and delight, a book not about lust but very much about love, mysterious and miraculous. A riveting book."--Brian Doyle, author of "Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies"
""Campus Sexpot" is a hilarious tour through the embarrassment of adolescence and small-town families. For female readers, it's also an education on American boyhood."--J. Gordon, "Nighttimes"
"[A] saucy, fanciful slice of creative nonfiction . . . In a nimble narrative, Carkeet transforms the reading of his first smutty book into a shrimpy boy's sexual initiation during the buttoned-up Kennedy years."--"Publishers Weekly"
"A fun read that feels a lot more like a novel than the memoir that it is."--"Blue Ridge Business Journal"
"Carkeet has a well-earned reputation as one of the funniest and most entertaining comic writers working today. In "Campus Sexpot", his first memoir, Carkeet turns his attention to small-town America, to the strangeness and hilarity of SEX, and to the fascinating and beautifully observed contradictions that lie at the center of family life. "Campus Sexpot" is an addictive joy to read."--John Dalton, author of "Heaven Lake"
"[Carkeet] knows to milk a joke and then fix without flinching on the sad human dramas fueling them."--"East Bay Express"
"Memoirs are, by definition, unique in their content. But leave it to David Carkeet, former St. Louisan and novelist extraordinaire, to take the form a step further with his own inventive coming-of-age story. . . . "Campus Sexpot" does not disappoint."--"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
A gloriously inventive, funny, piercing memoir of coming of age in a small Sierra town in the sixties. Using as a foil a pornographic potboiler set in the town, the author develops a wide range of feeling and observation--creative nonfiction at its best.--Suzannah Lessard "author of "The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family" "
David Carkeet's writings include five novels, three of which are New York Times Notable Books: Double Negative, The Greatest Slump of All Time, I Been There Before, The Full Catastrophe, and The Error of Our Ways. He resides in Vermont.