Macaroni Heart

Michael Narkunski is a Los Angeles–based New Yorker who writes about homosexuality, relationships, mental health issues, growing up in the forgotten borough of Staten Island, and the occasional game show disaster. His personal essays have appeared in Out, Narratively, Hippocampus Magazine, Southeast Review, and two LGBTQ anthologies, and his plays have been presented by Dixon Place, New Ambassadors Theater Co., and Philadelphia Artists' Collective. He holds degrees in writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Stony Brook University and currently serves as coeditor of The Queer Love Project.

• The DumperI. Baby GayThe Gift, the CurseMy Own Personal 9/11Good StudentDad's GameA Private Person . . . with Fine TasteThe Dumper IIII. Practicing GayTipping PointThe Missing PieceFight or Flight ClubWho Wants to Be a Mama's Boy?Bad HomoHappy Hour of the WolfDented CanThe Dumper IIIIII. Gay Death Brotherly Love, No Relation Golden Eagle Down Boyfriend Boot Camp: Reality Starts Small HiccupThe Dumper IVAcknowledgmentsNotes

"Warm, hilarious, and impossible to put down, Macaroni Heart explores the thorniness of coming of age as a gay New Yorker. It is astoundingly good. I've been waiting my whole adult life for the next David Sedaris, and in Michael Narkunski, I've found him but better: hornier, more honest, sillier, steeped in millennial culture, and way more Jewish." - Alison Fairbrother, author of The Catch"A free-wheeling, heartfelt quest through the 'too-much' emotions of being a newly-out queer person, the joys and insecurities associated with queer sex and dating, and the perpetual tug towards a future that is not only good but great. A rollicking romp through an era of LiveJournal, #ItGetsBetter, Grindr, and Dance Moms, this memoir delights with every turn of the page." - Bronson Lemer, author of The Lonely Veteran's Guide to Companionship