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About Me

Dirty Money by Ayn Imperato


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A girl. A city. A great quantity of alcohol. Dirty jobs in a dirty town. Art as survival or sanity or both. Men in red devil suits. Tremendous amounts of devilish behavior. Covering oneself in mud and prancing around for a hundred dollars. Then doing it again for less. Life. Love. Giving a fuck. Not giving in. Giving it all up for what matters.
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Reviews:

"Humorous, poetic, and real...delivers a punch of social realism and a wrench to the heart."
-Bad Subjects
"Sheer honesty...An interesting life and she knows how to write about it. I guarantee you'll sit down and read "Dirty Money" in one sitting. If you're like me, you'll finish it and flip back to the front to reread it all again...This isn't run of the mill, personal writing that you find in most zines these days. This is quality stuff."
-Deep Fry Bonanza
"A fine, sparky writer from the SF punk scene merits attentiton for her stories about people lost in the shuffle of gentrified "alternative" culture...near perfect attempt to capture the contradictions and inspirations rising from her interactions in this world."
-I-D magazine
"A tone that is sometimes deadpan, other times heartfelt, and always distinctly edgy...a fun, fast read."
-Boulder Weekly

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Henry Chinaski, Chaka, Ta, Sa, the ghost of H.L. Mencken, Johnny Cash and you.

Movies:

Comedies, Dramas and Cult welcome

Books:

Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Cormac McCarthy, James Joyce, J.D.Salinger, Gerald Haslam, Henry Miller, Marisa Silver, J.T. Leroy, Dorothy Allison, Haruki Murakami, Thomas McGuane, Raymond Carver, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Jim Carroll, McSweeney's, Denis Johnson

Heroes:

"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable." ~ H.L. Mencken

My Blog

LA Times Festival of Books - Saturday

If you're going to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday, April 26th......stop by the Manic D Press booth, shared with the Poets and Writers booth (number 666...ooooh creepy) and say Hi ...
Posted by Dirty Money on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:00:00 PST

Steaming Hot Slice of Life *NEW* post

"Feeling Fluty in Long Beach" www.steaminghotsliceoflife.blogspot.com
Posted by Dirty Money on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:36:00 PST

HAPPY VD!

For those a little tired of the old candy and flowers route, try love urban style, and check out my "Drink of the Week" column in The District this week: http://thedistrictweekly.com/print/food-drink/...
Posted by Dirty Money on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:17:00 PST

NEW BLOG SPOT - Steaming Hot Slice of Life

I've moved some of my blogs to a new blogspot- please visit and add your comments there :) This space will now be mainly for info or literary blogging.   http://www.steaminghotsliceoflife...
Posted by Dirty Money on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:14:00 PST

***LA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS - THIS SATURDAY***

Publisher Manic D Press has a booth this year at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books! Saturday April 28 & Sunday April 29 - Booth #666  (just a coincidence, folks), shared with Poets &a...
Posted by Dirty Money on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:40:00 PST

RUSSIA UPDATE

I won a partial scholarship to a writing workshop in St. Petersburg, Russia, and they're letting me apply it to next year's tuition. It's a year from now (Summer 2008), but I'm gonna go, and now I'll ...
Posted by Dirty Money on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:39:00 PST

I WON SOMETHING...SORT OF

I was a finalist in the St. Petersburg, Russia Summer Literary Seminars contest, with Douglas Coupland as judge. Yea! I'm glad, but the scholarship only covers 25% of the tuition...so unless $300...
Posted by Dirty Money on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:14:00 PST

90803 - TEACHING IS COOL

90803 I have the secret to teaching: drink a very large energy drink right before you go to class. I like Rockstar or Red Bull.Then when you arrive you're wired, but totally psyched! Time to te...
Posted by Dirty Money on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:10:00 PST

NEW BLOG - 90803 - Home Decorating your Brain: An experience at IKEA

90803 - January 16, 2007 It was an act of desperation. Over the years, our mattress at home had begun to sag so low in the middle that when Mike and I lay on it we began to roll together, lolling...
Posted by Dirty Money on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:45:00 PST

*SHAMELESS PLUG No. 2*

In case you missed my first shameless plug... On Christmas eve, little misunderstood Billy stands looking out from a precipice at the expansive and glittering city of Los Angeles. Somewhere out there...
Posted by Dirty Money on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:17:00 PST