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A review by joeynedland
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
3.0
2.5 stars.
Damon Young has a distinct voice, but I struggled throughout this book to understand 'why'...Why was it written as a book, when the chapters seemed best lent to blog posts (which I think is how they were initially published)? Why did Young focus incessantly on his sex drive, without drawing any interesting conclusions from it? Why didn't he accept more responsibility for the sexist and chauvinist article he wrote about rape culture? Why was it *so* focused on Pittsburgh minutiae?
Overall, it was fine, but I don't know that it needed to be a full memoir.
Damon Young has a distinct voice, but I struggled throughout this book to understand 'why'...Why was it written as a book, when the chapters seemed best lent to blog posts (which I think is how they were initially published)? Why did Young focus incessantly on his sex drive, without drawing any interesting conclusions from it? Why didn't he accept more responsibility for the sexist and chauvinist article he wrote about rape culture? Why was it *so* focused on Pittsburgh minutiae?
Overall, it was fine, but I don't know that it needed to be a full memoir.