Bohemian Love Diaries A Memoir

A compelling coming-of-age tale infused with southern charm, The Bohemian Love Diarieschronicles Slash Coleman's upbringing in a warped but loving household of eccentric artists. Descended from a posse of off-beat immigrants-including a grandfather who danced at the Moulin Rouge-and raised in the capital of the Confederacy during the '70s and '80s, young Slash sets out to find true love. Unfortunately, he's his own worst enemy. Obsessions with Evel Knievel, rock band KISS, and a complex addiction to traveling the globe to find the girl of his dreams set him and his quest for happiness on a hapless course. Alternately hilarious and profound, Coleman, a brilliant young artist, comes to terms with his father, a genius sculptor and volatile alcoholic, and his mother, a Holocaust survivor who makes her son promise never to reveal that he's Jewish. A tender, moving portrait emerges of a man whose passionate creative spirit refuses to be suppressed. A swift kick to the funny bone, The Bohemian Love Diariesand its laugh-out-loud perversity conjure Jonathan Ames and Augusten Burroughs with a cutting edge that will make you think that Slash was raised in Chuck Palahniuk's attic by John Hodgman. He will leave you howling.

Slash Coleman is an award-winning storyteller and personal perspectives blogger for Psychology Today. A regular Storytelling magazine contributor and performer on the national storytelling circuit, he appeared most recently on the NPR series How Artists Make Money. He lives in New York City, hosts the Slash Wednesday show, and is creating The New American Storyteller for PBS.