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Synopsis
Obie Award–winning performance artist and playwright Holly Hughes takes the reader on a personal tour across America with visits to Michigan's Mystery Spot, the floor of the U.S. Senate, and New York's WOW Cafe, where notions of theater and femaleness are taken apart and put back together., An Obie award-winning performance artist and playwright takes readers on a personal tour of controversial arenas across America, where she scrapes away decades of encrusted decorum from a subject (female sexuality) that is too often treated with a hushed sentimentality (The New York Times)., Holly Hughes is one of the most popular and controversial out-there-and-in-your-face writer-performers around, and in this collection of some of her greatest hits she describes her career as an "escape" artist: how she escaped her conservative upbringing in a part of the country "where silence was the first language" to become an award-winning performance artist and playwright as well as a central figure in America's culture wars. As the Los Angeles Times observed, "Holly Hughes is everything you always wanted in a lesbian performance artist-and less."
