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FRUIT COCKTAIL: A NOVEL - "If Armistead Maupin and David Sedaris had a love child, it would be Arthur Wooten." - The Examiner - San Francisco
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"Witty and romantic...these are books (Fruit Cocktail and On Picking Fruit) that will make you laugh as hard as you cry." - Gaydarnation, UK
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"Yay! Curtis Jenkins is back, after winning our hearts in Wooten's On Picking Fruit. Now Jenkins has hit the big-time with a best-seller—not that everything's sunshine and lollipops. His tornado of a mom is bi, he gets lured into a nude yoga retreat and he's dating a priest. Still hilarious, here's to many more Jenkins adventures!" HX Magazine - NYC
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"Wooten manages to combine great compassion and humor together...Fruit Cocktail will make you laugh, smile and cheer out loud!" - Ralph Higgins, Wayves Newspaper - Canada - Nationwide
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"This is one sequel that stands the test of the original without difficulty. Mr. Wooten has turned Fruit Cocktail into haute cuisine." - JC Parrish - Webdigestweekly.com
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"Novelist Arthur Wooten may very well be living the dream of writing “The Great American Novel.” - Tim Parks - GLT
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FRUIT COCKTAIL - EARLY QUOTES "Why watch another repeat of Sex And The City, when you can read Arthur Wooten’s hilarious tales of the highs and lows of being a “homofessional gaylebrity” looking for love?" - Recording Artist Ari Gold ***** "Arthur Wooten offers us a juicy treat with his latest, Fruit Cocktail. Writing in a way that is alternately lovely and incisive, Wooten takes a look at the perilous state of same-sex dating in the new millennium in a way that invites both guffaws ... and smiling nods of recognition. An entertaining read from beginning to end." - Ben Patrick Johnson - Author/TV Host ***** "I may be straight but I totally related to Curtis' hilarious misadventures whether dating, dealing with the entertainment industry or being a celebrity." - Julian Fantechi - Playgirl Man Of The Year - 2007 *****
FRUIT COCKTAIL: A DIRECT PICK-UP
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Hop on board for this delicious, freshly squeezed sequel to the acclaimed On Picking Fruit, where Curtis Jenkins once again braves the fickle dating scene in his continuing search for the perfect man. After writing the successful "101 Ways to Collide Into Your Gay Soul Mate", Curtis finds on his book tour that men - whether in Provincetown, Los Angeles, or somewhere in between - rarely wear their hearts on their biceps . . . unless it's a tattoo. Funny, unpredictable, and strangely moving, Fruit Cocktail is, like its feckless hero, ripe for the picking.
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ON PICKING FRUIT - "There is a sort of genius in Wooten’s ability to take common experience (you’ll swear the author lifted passages directly out of your secret diary) and make Curtis’ struggles uproariously funny and yet not ridiculous. There is a lot of forgiveness and self-acceptance in this book. It shows that part of la condition humaine is to strive and fail, and there is comfort in that. Actions taken for all the right reasons sometimes achieve an undesirable end and there are many wonderful people starving for love and still going to bed hungry. In short,Curtis’ tale is a story most of us have lived." - Ralph Higgins - Outlooks Magazine
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"On Picking Fruit...sweetly satirical debut novel...bubbly comedy of manners... A true New York story...Wooten's slight, genteel style and his manner of humanizing even the most bizarre incidences make On Picking Fruit an enjoyable read and a witty and rather self-deprecatory adventure of the trials and tribulations of gay dating. - Curled Up With A Good Book -
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LOGO recommends On Picking Fruit Click here
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"...this is the great gay memoir you always wanted to write." - HX Magazine Click here
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"Uproarious comic novel." - Edge - Boston - Providence - Philadelphia - Ft. Lauderdale
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"...you must go out and get this book." - Scotsgay Magazine - Scotland
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"Wooten is relentlessly funny..." - Lavender Magazine
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"...campy debut novel, well-balanced with equal parts humor and heart...frivolous fun..." - Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco
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"If gallantry in our day is defined as facing adversity with screams of laughter, then On Picking Fruit is the most gallant book I know of. - Edmund White
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"On Picking Fruit is funny, edgy, unpredictable gay dates from hell. I felt like I was reading my dating autobiography!" - ANT - Host ofVH1's "Celebrity
Fit Club" and star of the new LOGO series,"U.S. of ANT."
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On Picking Fruit Click here is a delicious tale about a gay man on a quest to find his soul mate. But the trials and tribulations of dating are universal. Whether you are straight, bi, gay, lesbian, transgender or even confused...dates from hell are still dates from hell.
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"Wooten holds a fun-house mirror to our hapless, all-too-human fumblings for true love with hilarious results instantly recognizable to the would-be romantic in each of us." - Scott&Scott - authors of the Romentic Series
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On Picking Fruit is now a featured item at InsightOut Book Club...with a limited special edition of hardcover copies. "The New York City gay-dating scene can be hilarious, heartfelt, sexy, shocking and downright scary, as imagined in this novel of a man on a hunt for love."
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UK Positive Nation - London
"On Picking Fruit is fast and breezy but also heartbreaking and full of hope." *************************************************************************************
Splash Night Life - Florida
"I guarantee you'll be entertained every word of the way!"
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QX Magazine - London
"Entertaining, enthralling...amusing and humane tale."
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Watch Fruit Cocktail's Book Trailer:
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Fruit Cocktail's launch-NYC-12/06/07 youtube
Who I'd like to meet: I would love to collide into a terrific guy. I'd like a sexy, sensitive, smart, superman with a great sense of humor. That's not too much to ask for, is it?
I love theatre, film, museums. Mountains as much as the ocean. I'm a huge foodie. In fact, I think I'm a fat man trapped in a muscular guy's body.
Love lobster - hate lima beans.
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Arthur, you didn't tell me you were in a dirty tell-all memoir. I just finished reading it and I'm shocked! LOL! Just kidding. It was Dirty White Boy btw. :)
finally on youtube! :D when you have a chance, you should watch the vid and/or go to my myspace for more great music (if ya like it, of course!:p)neway hope you enjoy=).
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