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THERE'S A ROAD TO EVERYWHERE EXCEPT WHERE YOU CAME FROM, a memoir of my first few years in New York City, a period that found me struggling to adapt after moving from Michigan, as well as trying to become a writer while supporting myself with a corporate day job that led me to a cubicle on the seventieth floor of the World Trade Center.

"A sneakily disturbing, disarmingly profound, casually devastating memoir, taut and adept, that cracked me up even at its saddest moments, and broke my heart almost without my quite noticing."
--Michael Chabon, author of MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS and THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY

"Honest and unembellished, THERE'S A ROAD TO EVERYWHERE EXCEPT WHERE YOU CAME FROM is a forthright portrait of the exact spot where the life of one young writer in New York intersects with history. A fresh vision of how the familiar becomes the unbelievable."
--Joan Silber, author of THE SIZE OF THE WORLD and IDEAS OF HEAVEN

"An astonishingly honest account of what it means to be young and ambitious and just self-aware enough to know that whatever you’ve managed to drag into the light about yourself will never be enough to save you from all that remains in darkness. There’s a lot of pain in this account of misdeeds and misadventures on the road toward what could almost—God forbid—be called maturity, but the pain is laced with sly humor, clear-eyed intelligence, and an absolute and deeply honorable refusal to flinch from truth."
--Scott Smith, author of THE RUINS and A SIMPLE PLAN

“With ease and humor, Bryan Charles does what all writers aspire to do: he shows us the familiar in a whole new way. His beautiful, often painful, honesty makes the inside of his head a fascinating place to be.”
--Rachel Sherman, author of THE FIRST HURT and LIVING ROOM

"This is the book I can't forget...Full of insightful, transcendent regular-guy moments and bad decisions, it didn't make me like the author, but it knocked me on my ass."
—Library Journal (starred review)

"Gripping . . . a writer with true authority."
—Publishers Weekly

"[A] potent, touching, slow burn of a memoir . . ."
—Bookforum

One of Library Journal's best nonfiction books of 2010

One of BlackBook magazine's best books of 2010

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WOWEE ZOWEE, my entry in Continuum's 33 1/3 series of books. Wowee Zowee is my all-time favorite record by my all-time favorite band Pavement. The book features extensive interviews with all five members of the band about the WZ period, before and after etc. Also interviews with assorted label honchos, various engineers, and cover artist Steve Keene.