Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary Poverty And yet as the years

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Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary Poverty And yet as the yearsIn this unique follow up to her memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You, Kate Camp turns her poet s eye on her 1986 diary. Reading The Diary in its entirety for the first time, she revels in 80s touchstones like Revlon Custom Eyes and Ghostbusters on VHS. But amid the daily details, like smoking menthols in Suzy s Coffee Lounge and wearing Jazzercise tights in a phone box, are moments of drama, even tragedy being black out drunk in a spa