Toilet is a bracing and explicit look into the life of its narrator, a young gay man at the crossroads of a life that has veered dangerously close to the edge. As he struggles to define himself and his future, we are witness to the blistering and numbing extremes of his rich and unfiltered emotional experience.

— Dennis Cooper

Reading Toilet feels like reading someone’s diary, glancing up every few sentences to see if you’ve been caught, and meeting the author’s steady gaze. That he has invited you to read it only intensifies the thrill. Toilet is not an easy little read: it’s tough, demanding, and vigorous. It’s also touching and poignant—qualities that we feel will earn this book and its author much acclaim.

— Kathy Acker

Tom Woolley's character is a hustler, a lover, a friend, and at the most disarming times, a child. Ultimately, he is greater than the sum of those parts. Undefinable, yet unnervingly familiar, his voice echoes in the reader's consciousness long after the last page is turned.

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Tom Woolley goes to the dark,
passionate places most people
only dream—or nightmare—about,
and comes up with sheer poetry.
Toilet bowled me over!"

— Michael Musto

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— Scott Heim

Thomas Woolley grew up on the west coast, but now lives and works in New York City with his dog, Will. He is a staff writer for The New York Press, and is working on his first novel. He tells us he has about nine hours of "excrutiating" needle work left to complete the Virgin of Guadeloupe tattoo on his back. He supplements his writing career in interesting ways, the least sensational of which includes being the superintendent of three buildings in Manhattan.

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