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Learn more"A blisteringly funny, wrenching account of wrestling way too close to—and later loose from—booze, sex and drugs and his adorable, infuriating mother. Bravo!" —Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars' Club
"Whoever said you can't get sober for someone else never met my mother, Mama Jean. When I came to in a Manhattan emergency room after an overdose to the news that she was on her way from Texas, I panicked. She was the last person I wanted to see on that dark September morning, but the person I needed the most."
So begins this astonishing memoir—by turns both darkly comic and deeply poignant—about this native Texan's long struggle with alcohol, his complicated relationship with Mama Jean, and his sexuality. From the age of five all Brickhouse wanted was to be at a party with a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other and all Mama Jean wanted was to keep him at that age, her Jamie doll forever. A Texan Elizabeth Taylor with the split personality of Auntie Mame and Mama Rose, always camera-ready and flamboyantly outspoken, Mama Jean haunted him his whole life, no matter how far away he went or how deep in booze he swam.
Brickhouse's journey takes him from Texas to a high-profile career in book publishing amid New York's glamorous drinking life to his near-fatal descent into alcoholism. After Mama Jean ushers him into rehab and he ultimately begins to dig out of the hole he'd found himself in, he almost misses his chance to prove that he loves her as much as she loves him. Bitingly funny, raw, and insightful, Dangerous When Wet is the unforgettable story of a unique relationship between a son and his mother.
Jamie Brickhouse has been published in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Salon, Out, Lambda Literary Review, Publishers Weekly, Poz, Shelf Awareness, TheFix.com, Addiction/Recovery eBulletin, and the Latin American travel magazine, Travesía. He is also a guest blogger for the Huffington Post. Brickhouse spent over two decades in the publishing industry, most recently at two major houses as head of their publicity and lecture divisions. He is founder and CEO of redBrick Agency, a lecture bureau for authors. Dangerous When Wet is his first book and was named an Amazon Best Book of May 2015 and is “Required Reading” in Mary Karr’s bestselling The Art of Memoir. Brickhouse is a Moth StorySLAM winner, has performed stand-up comedy and recorded voice-overs for the legendary cartoon TV show, Beavis and Butthead. A native of Beaumont, Texas, he is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (now the Columbia Publishing Course). He spent his junior of college at Goldsmiths College, University of London. A native of Beaumont, Texas, Brickhouse lives in Manhattan with his common-law husband, Michael. He is at work on his next book, I Favor My Daddy, a memoir about his father Earl.
Jamie Brickhouse has been published in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Salon, Out, Lambda Literary Review, Publishers Weekly, Poz, Shelf Awareness, TheFix.com, Addiction/Recovery eBulletin, and the Latin American travel magazine, Travesía. He is also a guest blogger for the Huffington Post. Brickhouse spent over two decades in the publishing industry, most recently at two major houses as head of their publicity and lecture divisions. He is founder and CEO of redBrick Agency, a lecture bureau for authors. Dangerous When Wet is his first book and was named an Amazon Best Book of May 2015 and is “Required Reading” in Mary Karr’s bestselling The Art of Memoir. Brickhouse is a Moth StorySLAM winner, has performed stand-up comedy and recorded voice-overs for the legendary cartoon TV show, Beavis and Butthead. A native of Beaumont, Texas, he is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (now the Columbia Publishing Course). He spent his junior of college at Goldsmiths College, University of London. A native of Beaumont, Texas, Brickhouse lives in Manhattan with his common-law husband, Michael. He is at work on his next book, I Favor My Daddy, a memoir about his father Earl.