Novels
- Chelsea Girls (1994)
- Cool for You (2000)
- The Inferno (2009)
Collections
- Bread and Water (1988)
Non fiction
- The Importance of Being Iceland (2008)
- Afterglow (2017)
- For Now (2020)
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Eileen Myles Books Overview
Chelsea Girls
stories, w/Nicole Eisenman’s cover art
Cool for You
Cool for You‘s tough girl narrator wants to be an astronaut. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of low end schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade beds. Schooled by mean and memorable Catholic nuns, this tomboy hero*ine stumbles and dreams her way through the painful corridors of family, early sexual encounters, and an eye opening series of jobs caring for the sick and insane the abandoned wards of the state. This is a book hell bent on telling the truth about poor women, and how they do and do not get out of the hands of their families and the state. Without artifice or pseudonym, protagonist Eileen Myles boldly sets down a rich and graphic account of female experience in this world.
The Importance of Being Iceland
A poet and post punk hero*ine writes on subjects ranging from Bj rk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau’s footsteps on Cape Cod