Young Kim grew up in Long Island, New York, before studying history at Yale University. After teaching English for one year in the former East Germany, she then completed the first year of law school at N.Y.U. before abandoning it in favor of her passion for the creative world. This led her to Paris to study fashion.During her second year in Paris, she met Malcolm McLaren and immediately commenced a romantic relationship. After a stint in the fashion world, including as an editor of V Magazine/ Visionaire, she started working exclusively with McLaren in 2000 as his producer and creative partner on projects in art, fashion, music, film, theatre, advertising, and media, until his death in 2010. As the sole executor and heir of the Estate of Malcolm McLaren, she continues to work in the same worlds as well as writing. She has published pieces in Vogue US, Holiday, Drugstore Culture and GQ UK. She lives between Paris and New York.

'A forensic dissection of the author’s intense sexual relationship with a charismatic, frustrating, talented man, and you won’t have read anything quite like it. It’s breathtakingly frank, clear-eyed and gripping. We should all be grateful that Young Kim is able to write about the risks and delights of desire without fear or shame – and in cool prose that avoids the color purple and all shades of grey.' - Nick Hornby'A first-time author’s account of her affair with Richard Hell... described in sentences that are at once clipped and conversational... has become a cult word-of-mouth hit among artists and writers.' - The New York Times'I found the book so engrossing; I really did read it in one sitting. That's kind of unheard of from me. It all takes place in a beautiful bubble of privilege and thank god. It's glorious to be allowed to enter into it because fuck the rest of our rotten, barren world in this moment.' - Bret Easton Ellis'Sex, fashion, celebrities, travel-in the midst of all this swirling glamour and erotic experimentation is the attentive eye of a discerning young woman.' - Edmund White'The most graphically effective sex writing I've read in a long time. The same material as fiction wouldn't have such an immediate and even threatening effect: when someone is making something up, that gives the reader an out, and this doesn't.' - Greil Marcus'A fabulous escapist fantasy involving two cool people in amazing clothes having a fine time taking them off in glamorous hotel rooms.' - Helen Rumbelow, The Times'The spirit of Anais Nin and Georges Bataille is reborn in this wonderful book. Young Kim has written something that is much more than a memoir-a truly modern work of art.' - Matthew D'Ancona

Young Kim grew up in Long Island, New York, before studying history at Yale University. After teaching English for one year in the former East Germany, she then completed the first year of law school at N.Y.U. before abandoning it in favor of her passion for the creative world. This led her to Paris to study fashion.During her second year in Paris, she met Malcolm McLaren and immediately commenced a romantic relationship. After a stint in the fashion world, including as an editor of V Magazine/ Visionaire, she started working exclusively with McLaren in 2000 as his producer and creative partner on projects in art, fashion, music, film, theatre, advertising, and media, until his death in 2010. As the sole executor and heir of the Estate of Malcolm McLaren, she continues to work in the same worlds as well as writing. She has published pieces in Vogue US, Holiday, Drugstore Culture and GQ UK. She lives between Paris and New York.

'A forensic dissection of the author’s intense sexual relationship with a charismatic, frustrating, talented man, and you won’t have read anything quite like it. It’s breathtakingly frank, clear-eyed and gripping. We should all be grateful that Young Kim is able to write about the risks and delights of desire without fear or shame – and in cool prose that avoids the color purple and all shades of grey.' - Nick Hornby'A first-time author’s account of her affair with Richard Hell... described in sentences that are at once clipped and conversational... has become a cult word-of-mouth hit among artists and writers.' - The New York Times'I found the book so engrossing; I really did read it in one sitting. That's kind of unheard of from me. It all takes place in a beautiful bubble of privilege and thank god. It's glorious to be allowed to enter into it because fuck the rest of our rotten, barren world in this moment.' - Bret Easton Ellis'Sex, fashion, celebrities, travel-in the midst of all this swirling glamour and erotic experimentation is the attentive eye of a discerning young woman.' - Edmund White'The most graphically effective sex writing I've read in a long time. The same material as fiction wouldn't have such an immediate and even threatening effect: when someone is making something up, that gives the reader an out, and this doesn't.' - Greil Marcus'A fabulous escapist fantasy involving two cool people in amazing clothes having a fine time taking them off in glamorous hotel rooms.' - Helen Rumbelow, The Times'The spirit of Anais Nin and Georges Bataille is reborn in this wonderful book. Young Kim has written something that is much more than a memoir-a truly modern work of art.' - Matthew D'Ancona

Young Kim grew up in Long Island, New York, before studying history at Yale University. After teaching English for one year in the former East Germany, she then completed the first year of law school at N.Y.U. before abandoning it in favor of her passion for the creative world. This led her to Paris to study fashion.During her second year in Paris, she met Malcolm McLaren and immediately commenced a romantic relationship. After a stint in the fashion world, including as an editor of V Magazine/ Visionaire, she started working exclusively with McLaren in 2000 as his producer and creative partner on projects in art, fashion, music, film, theatre, advertising, and media, until his death in 2010. As the sole executor and heir of the Estate of Malcolm McLaren, she continues to work in the same worlds as well as writing. She has published pieces in Vogue US, Holiday, Drugstore Culture and GQ UK. She lives between Paris and New York.

'A forensic dissection of the author’s intense sexual relationship with a charismatic, frustrating, talented man, and you won’t have read anything quite like it. It’s breathtakingly frank, clear-eyed and gripping. We should all be grateful that Young Kim is able to write about the risks and delights of desire without fear or shame – and in cool prose that avoids the color purple and all shades of grey.' - Nick Hornby'A first-time author’s account of her affair with Richard Hell... described in sentences that are at once clipped and conversational... has become a cult word-of-mouth hit among artists and writers.' - The New York Times'I found the book so engrossing; I really did read it in one sitting. That's kind of unheard of from me. It all takes place in a beautiful bubble of privilege and thank god. It's glorious to be allowed to enter into it because fuck the rest of our rotten, barren world in this moment.' - Bret Easton Ellis'Sex, fashion, celebrities, travel-in the midst of all this swirling glamour and erotic experimentation is the attentive eye of a discerning young woman.' - Edmund White'The most graphically effective sex writing I've read in a long time. The same material as fiction wouldn't have such an immediate and even threatening effect: when someone is making something up, that gives the reader an out, and this doesn't.' - Greil Marcus'A fabulous escapist fantasy involving two cool people in amazing clothes having a fine time taking them off in glamorous hotel rooms.' - Helen Rumbelow, The Times'The spirit of Anais Nin and Georges Bataille is reborn in this wonderful book. Young Kim has written something that is much more than a memoir-a truly modern work of art.' - Matthew D'Ancona