Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: A Memoir
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Fresh out of college and following a brief and disastrous stint playing minor league baseball, David Goodwillie moves to New York intent on making his mark as a writer. Arriving in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, Goodwillie quickly falls into one implausible job after another. He becomes a private investigator, imagining himself as a gumshoe, a hired gun-only to realize that he's more adept at bungling cases than at solving them. When, in his stint as a freelance journalist, he unveils the Mafia in a magazine exposé, he succeeds only in becoming a target of their wrath. As a copywriter for a sports auction house, he imagines documenting the great histories hidden in priceless artifacts but finds himself forced to write about a lock of Mickey Mantle's hair. Even when he seems to break through, somehow becoming the sports expert at Sotheby's auction house-appearing on major news networks, raking in a hefty salary-he's lured away by the promise of Internet millions...just in time for the dot-com crash. Teeming with the vibrancy of a city in hyperdrive, Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time recounts a dizzying and enthralling search for authenticity in a cynical, superficial-and suddenly dangerous-age. In his heartbreaking and hilarious struggle to become a big-city writer, Goodwillie becomes something more: an important voice of the lost generation he so elegantly describes. DAVID GOODWILLIE's fiction has appeared in Swink, BlackBook, and other publications, and he is a contributor to the essay collection My Father Married Your Mother (Norton, Spring 2006). He lives in New York City. "[An] exuberant and rollicking first memoir . . . one that restores lightness, honesty and enthusiasm to the genre." -New York Post
Notes
Goodwillie, D. (2006). Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: A Memoir. [United States], Algonquin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Goodwillie, David. 2006. Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time: A Memoir. [United States], Algonquin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Goodwillie, David, Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time: A Memoir. [United States], Algonquin Books, 2006.
MLA Citation (style guide)Goodwillie, David. Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time: A Memoir. [United States], Algonquin Books, 2006.
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