Witty, magnetic and penetrating - prompting comparisons to Brett Easton Ellis and Charles Bukowski - Cat Marnell reveals essential truths about her generation, brilliantly uncovering the many aspects of being an addict with pin-sharp humour and beguiling style. Her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night, while she struggled to hold down her high-profile job during the day. Within 10 years she was living it up in New York as a beauty editor at Condé Nast, with a talent for 'doctor-shopping' that secured her a never-ending supply of prescriptions.

But, you know, I had access to some really fantastic self-tanner.'īy the age of 15, Cat Marnell longed to work in the glamorous world of women's magazines - but was also addicted to the ADHD meds prescribed by her father. I was also an alcoholic-in-training who guzzled warm Veuve Clicquot after work alone in my boss's office with the door closed a conniving and manipulative uptown doctor-shopper a salami-and-provolone-puking bulimic who spent a hundred dollars a day on binge foods when things got bad (and they got bad often) a weepy, wobbly, wildly hallucination-prone insomniac a tweaky self-mutilator a slutty and self-loathing downtown party girl and – perhaps most of all – a lonely weirdo. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets: I was a drug addict, for one. That's all that most people knew about me. 'I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America. ISSNĪn ISSN is a standardized international code which allows the identification of a serial publication.Īn ISSN consists of eight digits in two groups of four, separated by a hyphen.Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of How to Murder Your Life, written and read by Cat Marnell.

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How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell