This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Ramnick. While it's accurate to

call Brontes Purnell a novelist, his books and there are many of them are just

one slice of what he does as an artist. Purnell has made films and he's written for TV shows like Queer as Folk.

He plays in bands and his first solo album in an electronic vein

was called No jack swing.

I was just kind of wondering what it means when you say.

Ghosting is a clear form of communication.

Like what do you mean by that?

All of that work reflects the underground spirit of the Oakland, California,

punk scene in the early 2000s,

where Brontes Prenel came of age.

Prenel's new book is a memoir with the where Brontez Pernell came of age.

Pernell's new book is a memoir with the unbeatable title,

Ten Bridges I've burnt.

He spoke with Jeffrey Masters, who's a senior producer on the radio hour. You know, when I pick up a Bronte-Pranell book,

I always know that there are going to be scenes,

specifically sex scenes that make me gasp and blush that make me cringe and

always laugh and that is definitely true with this new book it's a memoir memoir, a memoir and verse, but it skips over these traditional memoir beats.

These capital L life events that we often see, they're not a nat and they're presented when necessary, but it's these smaller moments of his life that stand out.

And it's these smaller moments or seemingly smaller moments, we should say, like getting into a fight at a poetry conference, or as he describes

it, the humiliation of jogging. It's those things that Brontez gives the most weight to and just one of the many reasons why I wanted to talk to him about this new book.

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