Combining the audio with the print copy proved perfect to enhance Chee's lyrical prose. He mentions throughout how he is teased about how his style of writing is too "flowery" but I found it intoxicating—it's exactly the kind of writing I admire most. I'd put off picking up these essays because I was sure they'd bowl me over (they did) and I wanted to appreciate them as best I could. It's a great mix of writing guides and memoir, sometimes telling more colloquial anecdotes about his apartments, or sometimes retelling what it was like to live through the early AIDS crisis in San Francisco or 9/11 in New York. He has a way of sharing his POV so that he's really sharing it with you, the reader, allowing you to get as close to the events and his thoughts as he was when he experienced them. It's fascinating. I could study his words for years and never quite figure out how he's doing what he is.