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About Me

Comprised entirely of real diary entries gathered over New York writer Lesley Arfin's teenage years and beyond, Dear Diary hilariously captures everything that makes us cringe about adolescence: the awkward relationships, the social posturing, and the sex and drugs that swirl around both like a flock of diseased pigeons. Arfin manages to inject humor into troubled years of parental abuse, tales of drug addiction, and a whole pile of insecurity.Dear Diary began as a wildly popular column in Vice Magazine which would start with Lesleyâ€™s diary entry and then update the reader with the perspective 10 years gives you. The book takes this process one step further as Lesley, now 27, tracks down the â€œfrienemiesâ€ listed in the entry and asks them probing questions like, â€œDid you french Josh?â€Dear Diary blurs the distinction between past and present, instead offering a stark continuous and cathartic commentary on the author's life, noting every embarrassing detail and effusively documenting every mistake without a trace of guilt or remorse. This is Lesleyâ€™s story, true, but itâ€™s also every girlâ€™s story. Readers of her generation will be stunned to see how similar their ups and downs are when mirrored by Lesleyâ€™s. From punk music to the burgeoning rave culture at the time, or as Lesley herself states, "being obsessed with boys that look like Harry Potter and having my heart broken by them." Much more than mere diary entries, this book is a reflection of life and the unintended greatness of the mistakes we all make along the way.Dear Diary is unlike anything else, a truly original work fully representative of the current zeitgeist, a transcendent Go Ask Alice from the post-Kids generation of New York.cafe con lesley

My Interests

Cool Runnings.

I'd like to meet:

Cool teenage girls who feel weird about life. (Boys too).

Music:

The Cool Runnings soundtrack and Eminem.

Movies:

Cool Runnings.

Television:

I like this the most out of everything.

Books:

Click Here to buy Dear Diary! I can also be found at urbanoutfitters.com, americanapparel.com, barnesandnoble.com, borders.com, amazon.com or any of these stores. If they don't have it they will order it for you. You can also ask your friendly local librarian to order it for you. These are the places I would go if I wanted to find a book. I really enjoy books about English private school boys who also happen to be Wizards. Except for that Harry Potter series. I like all the other ones though.

Heroes:

older kids

My Blog

taking it back

"Listening to Journey" is NOT a guilty pleasure. It's a cool thing to say it's a guilty pleasure but guess what else is cool? Listening to Journey. I thought I was going to take back the term "guilty ...
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:40:00 PST

Celebrity Detox

You know how on The View, Rosie was constantly like, "Why are we talking about Paris and Britney when soldiers are dying and Bush doesn't care?"Well, I got the same feeling from her book and while I w...
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:20:00 PST

Book Review

Well, I read it and yes, the hardcover edition was purchased. Let me begin by saying that I finished this book in 3 days, which is very fast for me. I'm a slow reader. I couldn't put it down, not beca...
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:08:00 PST

Halloween Pix!

The link is messed up, so just go to www.cafeconlesley.blogspot.com I don't know why myspace is getting gay about links n such. ...
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:22:00 PST

3 new blog entries

Autumn Update!
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:37:00 PST

itunes!

I have a special Dear Diary mix up on itunes. It's a good mix to listen to while you're reading your new favorite book, Dear Diary. So go to itunes and check it out. Do a search for "lesley arfin" or ...
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:38:00 PST

The Gothamist

read this now
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:22:00 PST

My Favorite Author

People ask me all the time who my favorite author is and what books I would recommend. I usually never know how to answer these questions because there are a lot of books I adore, yet others I can't s...
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:33:00 PST

Tomorrow, Thursday August 23, 2007!!!!

Remember the time I told you I was coming to Miami?Well that's still happening. It's tomorrow. Come on down!Books & Books, Coral Cables.8pm. I'll be taking suggestions of what you want me to do. I...
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:02:00 PST

I’m coming to Miami!

I will answer all your burning Dear Diary questions at Books and Books! Thursday, August 23. 8pm. There will be a big afterparty at SET! 11pm! I don't know where that is! Please come and meet m...
Posted by Lesley Arfin on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:46:00 PST