Campus Sexpot: A Memoir (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction) ebook

by David Carkeet

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Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. Dale Koby, former Sonora High English teacher, has written a book, Campus Sexpot. It is the most talked about literature in school. Published by: University of Georgia Press.

In 1962 David Carkeet's drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped . A good Californian memoir (Sonora!) which I enjoyed more than I expected. Campus Sexpot: A Memoir Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Series.

In 1962 David Carkeet's drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped awake at the news that it had inspired a smutty potboiler titled Campus Sexpot. Before leaving town on short notice, the novel's author had been an English teacher at the local high school, where Carkeet was a hormone-saturated sophomore. The writing has a good sense of time (1960's) and place which make it fun to read.

Campus Sexpot: A Memoir. Additional Information. Carkeet uproariously recaptures his stunned, youthful reaction to the novel's sleazy take on his hometown. Campus Sexpot: A Memoir. Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. The innocent nowhere burg where he despaired of ever getting any "action" became, in the pages of Campus Sexpot, a sink of iniquity echoing with "animal cries of delight. Blood pounded, dams of passion broke, and marriages and careers-not to mention the basics of good writing-went straight to hell.

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Beautifully written, Mot vividly evokes quotidian parking lots, campgrounds, and scenery and explores complicated, omnipresent moral questions about what it means to give, take, offer, need, and befriend in a way that will make it a reference point for me for years to come. Zoe Zolbrod The Rumpus). Mot is not a story of pat answers or happy endings. Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Ser. (Book 29). Hardcover: 168 pages.

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More than just a story about bread or money, it's a beautifully written family memoirwith an astonishing twist!that brings to life a vanished Lower East Side and the people who walked its streets.

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David Carkeet, who was for many years director of the MFA program at the .

David Carkeet, who was for many years director of the MFA program at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, was a student at the school at the time. As he recalls in Campus Sexpot: A Memoir, published by the University of Georgia Press, it was not hard to figure out the real-life identities of Koby’s characters. Carkeet is the winner of the award for creative nonfiction from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

She tipped her head sideways, her lips offering themselves to his. He remembered the fire those lips contained, the promise her kiss held. . . . In 1962 David Carkeet's drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped awake at the news that it had inspired a smutty potboiler titled Campus Sexpot. Before leaving town on short notice, the novel's author had been an English teacher at the local high school, where Carkeet was a hormone-saturated sophomore. Leaving was a good idea, it turned out, for most of the characters in Campus Sexpot had been modeled after Sonora's citizens.

Carkeet uproariously recaptures his stunned, youthful reaction to the novel's sleazy take on his hometown. The innocent nowhere burg where he despaired of ever getting any "action" became, in the pages of Campus Sexpot, a sink of iniquity echoing with "animal cries of delight." Blood pounded, dams of passion broke, and marriages and careers―not to mention the basics of good writing―went straight to hell.

As Carkeet relates his own romantic fumblings to the novel's clumsy twists and turns, he also evokes the urgently hushed atmosphere in which the book circulated among friends and neighbors. Eventually, Carkeet stumbles into adulthood, where he discovers a truer definition of manhood than the one in the pages of the pulp fiction of his youth. A wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel, Carkeet's memoir is, above all, a poignant and hilarious coming-of-age story sure to revive our own bittersweet teenage memories.

Hellblade

Oh this is such a guilty pleasure but also an exploration of life in a small town in the Sierras. He knows whereof he writes and he tells the story (and the stories within the story) so well.
Remember the film 'American Graffiti'? That was based on the town of Modesto...and then came the tv program 'Happy Days'....which was about as far from reality as Hollywood could make it...David Carkeet's book is real in all the kinds of 'real' that we find in our own lives.
It's a good story and his writing makes it a great read....and go to his website and treat yourself by reading other things he's written (for magazines, etc). he writes with an openness that seem so easy, like he's not really trying...and he's not...there's a lot of work to achieve what he has. And throughout the story, his underlying compassion and understanding of the people he grew up with, knew (and in some cases outgrew) so that it's not a tattletale kind of book. And his dad really was a nice man.

invasion

Remember Portnoy's complaint? This one is better. A memoir of the author's early years in high school as a short, fair, studious sex-obessed innocent.

Structured as a re-reading of a real, but obscure, mildly pornographic paperback, the author ranges widely over the youth culture of a small central California gold rush town in the 1960's.

The humor and the hysterical situations are timeless.

While lol funny, the book is also a revealing and sensitive biography of the author's family, both upstanding, and tragic.

This book is way too short. I finished it wanting more stories. It's kind of like an anti "Wayne's World".

the monster

David Carkeet is smart and funny. His memoir of teenage sexual angst is cleverly woven around his reading of a book (which might possibly be a creation of his own imagination) called Campus Sexpot. I laughed out loud as I read-- but my sister didn't crack a smile.

Nargas

This little book starts off hilarious, the weaving of a pulp fiction novel with Carkeet's memoir. Carkeet's breakdown of the prose of the pulp novel rivals humorist James Lileks' quips, as he critiques the writing style and the genre in general and weaves it in to the narrative of his own coming-of-age saga.

The book starts to lose steam, however, towards the end. The pulp fiction novel is all but forgotten, and Carkeet begins to ramble and jump from one point to another about his later childhood years and his adulthood. There's nothing wrong with his reminisces, and some are poignant and amusing, but the way he abandons the format he starts the book with gives the overall work an uneven feel -- as if he can't quite finish what he starts. Also, the points he chooses to elaborate on seem random, at best, and some of the major themes begun in the first half of the book are abandoned in the second (did he ever grow? did he ever "make it" with a girl? how did the rest of his high school go for him?). It's a shame, too, because the idea was a brilliant one as far as memoirs go.

Adrietius

I first became familiar with David Carkeet's work through a humorous essay called "The Unplanned Freefall." I consider "The Unplanned Freefall" to be the funniest piece of writing I have ever had the pleasure to read. I thoroughly enjoyed "Campus Sexpot" and have read it twice. In some ways, it's an unsettling book because of its frankness about sex and growing up. It has wonderful descriptions of small-town characters and occasional critiques of the writing style of an English teacher turned pornographer. Carkeet closes with a heartfelt chapter on alcoholism and his relationship with his father. I highly recommend this book.

Iriar

It's laugh out loud funny, brilliantly written, universally wonderful. So wonderful, in fact, about a third of the way into it, I felt compelled to write to Mr. Carkeet and compliment him! The deconstruction of the novel w/in the memoir is so right on. I can hardly wait to finish it, so I can start it all over again!

Tiainar

This may just be my favorite David Carkeet book. Yes, it's funny and smart and wonderfully written, but I've rarely had such a good time reading a memoir. The pages flew by. The commentary on Dale Koby's novel is hilarious but also very discerning (there are astute lessons here for struggling writers). And when the memoir turns its attention toward Carkeet's father the book achieves real weight and substance. Highly recommended!

Read it. You'll thank me later.