Chelsea Martin
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Soft Skull edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At her San Francisco art school, Joey enrolls in a film elective that requires her to complete what seems like a straightforward assignment: create a self-portrait. Joey inexplicably decides to remake Wes Anderson's Rushmore despite having never seen the movie. As Tell Me I'm An Artist unfolds over the course of the semester, the assignment hangs over her as she struggles to exist in a well-heeled world that is hugely different from any she has known....
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Funny, candid, and searchingly self-aware, this essay collection tells the story of Chelsea Martin's coming of age as an artist. We are with Chelsea as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an alien visitation to her neighborhood; fighting with her stepfather and grappling with a Tourette's diagnosis as she becomes a teenager; falling under the sway of frenemies and crushes in high school; going into debt to afford what might be a meaningless...
