Shirts & Skin, a book by performer-writer Tim Miller, charts a journey through his life and dirty laundry. The author gets naked and then tries on the shirts that his different experiences have offered up. Digging down to the bottom of the hamper, this book visits wild moments of conception, growing up, getting it up, ACTING UP, and lots of related life and love. Shirts & Skin is a funny, sexy, and moving story about becoming who you are supposed to be. Jumping off from the stories that have been in his autobiographical performance pieces that have delighted (and shocked) audiences all over the world, Shirts & Skin has become a new kind of literary creation. Occupying the space somewhere between a novel, a memoir, and a cookbook, Shirts & Skin details Miller’s adventures in Los Angeles and New York, the tricks and treats of relationships, becoming the faggot Jesse Helms loved to hate, and trying to make sense of his life and loves. Through humor, memory, fantasy, gratuitous sex, and unabashed honesty, Shirts & Skin charts one gay man’s take on the challenges of the last two decades of the millennium. Shirts & Skin is a novel approach to life.
"Always confident and occasionally hilarious…. This oddly beautiful picture of gay life captures an uncommon queer story and makes sense of the lives and loves we’re all attempting to sort out these days." --The Advocate
"Tim Miller dares to expose himself yet again--getting naked on the page and taking us along with him on his unique, funny, sexy adventure through life. Shirts & Skin is a gay boy’s fantasy ride--from queer little spermlet to leatherclad activist facing the bewildering challenges of sex, love, and death, Miller is a matchless minstrel of gay life--and he has written a fascinating fable for the end of the millennium." --William J. Mann, author of The Men from the Boys
