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Glory Goes and Gets Some

Emily Carter

These stories follow our heroine Glory from a privileged but horrible Upper East Side childhood to the East Village and heroin addiction to rehab in Minnesota and HIV diagnosis. In Minneapolis, Glory discovers the boring-slash-transcendent everyday life that’s her reward for surviving being herself long enough to make it to adulthood. Based on that description you might not think this book is going to be very funny, but this book is hilarious.

I don’t mean “wry” or “witty,” I mean it will make you involuntarily guffaw in many separate instances. Addiction and recovery has its own section in the bookstore, I know, but suspend your jadedness. Carter’s idiosyncratic voice and natural storyteller’s instincts make her take on these topics unique. You will be surprised at how many more-famous books seem like a pale imitation of this one.

You may purchase this book directly from Coffee House Press.

About the Author

Emily Carter

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Emily Carter is the author of Glory Goes and Gets Some. Her work has received many awards and fellowships, including the Loft/McKnight Award, a Bush Grant, and a National Magazine Award.

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On an early Sunday morning a reporter called to ask me questions about women with AIDS. Don’t waste your time with me, I told her, I’m nothing more in the scheme of things than a rather charming statistical anomaly. Meaning?

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Getting Rid of Some

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J was a curly-haired sophomore who drove what we called the party car: whenever he showed up he would unload an enormous duffel bag of hookahs and weed and terrible alcohol, for some reason usually electric blue bottles of Alizé. There were other drugs, too, but I didn’t partake so I couldn’t tell you what all he provided. It was never clear to me where it all came from, how my prep school classmates scored their ‘shrooms, E, coke and meth, or who met the actual drug dealers so that my friends could distribute in the parking lot before first period.

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The Same Situation

01/02/12 • Sari Botton

I got a nice email from Emily (Gould) the other day about my conversation with Emily Carter, published as part of a series I write for The Rumpus. She said she wished the piece had been longer, and I immediately regretted two choices I had made. The first was not pursuing further with Carter the subject of addiction to male approval and attention.

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"If there’s one quality I hate in a woman, it’s modesty. Besides making me, with my trombone mouth, feel vaguely uncouth, I think it’s a chickenshit response to the demands of the marketplace, or the universe, not that I can tell them apart."

-Emily Carter, Glory Goes and Gets Some