Mike Edision
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go

Monday, June 16 at 7 p.m

I Have Fun Everywhere I Go is a rollicking, high-octane, always irreverent journey through the seamy side of the publishing industry. Mike Edison’s résumé spans twenty years and a slew of notorious titles, including Screw, High Times, Penthouse, and Hustler. An Ivy League dropout who’s never looked back, Edison embarked on a career that’s landed him in the producer’s chair for one of the worst B movies of all time; on tour with the likes of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, GG Allin, and the Ramones; undercover at a religious cult; on a bender with Evel Knievel; feuding with Hulk Hogan; smoking dope with Ozzy Osborne; and authoring some twenty novels you wouldn’t want your mother to catch you reading—let alone writing.

I Have Fun Everywhere I Go combines the fear and loathing of Hunter Thompson’s journalistic thrill rides with the acerbic insider voice of Toby Young. It’s an eye-opening, gleeful view of life on the edge—and the outlaws and oddballs encountered there.

“Edison’s juicy screed of a memoir is like a kick in the solar plexus: It may hurt like nobody’s business, but at least it wakes you up. . . . A beer-sozzled, speed-cranked nail bomb of a book—what everybody’s Saturday night should be like.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Edison’s book is so funny and smart and delightfully filthy that I wish I had written it myself.” —Al Goldstein, founder Screw magazine

MIKE EDISON’s wrong-side-of-the-tracks magazine career began when he won the editorship of Wrestling’s Main Event in a “loser leaves town” professional wrestling match, and includes stops at such notorious titles as High Times, Hustler, Screw, and Penthouse. As usual, he puts it best, “That’s not a résumé, that’s a crime scene.” Edison has also found time to tour Europe with hedonistic garage punks the Raunch Hands and the Pleasure F*ckers; cross the country with legendary hardcore band Reagan Youth; as well as record and gig (and have his life threatened) with GG Allin. He has been known to don eyeliner and feather boas to sit in with the Lunachicks and served as the Minister of Information for Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

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