Self-Sabotage

And Other Ways I’ve Spent My Time

By: Jeffery Self

Length: 12 hrs

Publisher's summary

In the vein of Gary Janetti and Danny Pellegrino, a hilarious and deeply moving memoir-in-essays about dreaming big, making art, and trying to maintain your sanity in a truly madcap world.

Jeffery Self always knew he had something. What he didn’t know was where that something would take him. He sure had his share of obstacles—the usual foibles of gay adolescence, of course, but then there was the vast wasteland of the American South and the odd characters who peopled it. (To say nothing of the one mom in dance class who simply had it out for him…) Determined to make something of his talents, he would journey from his home state of Georgia to New York to North Carolina to New York again to Los Angeles to New York yet again. In each place, he got one step closer to his vision—with a hearty dose of bipolarity thrown in for good measure.

In this, his first book for adults, Jeffery Self takes us from shoddy college theater productions to parties thrown by Broadway stars, from downtown comedy rooms to adventure-filled bedrooms, all in his quest to live of life of creativity and Something Big. Along the way, he’s gotten to act in TV and film, tour live comedy around the world, meet his heroes, fall in love, get his heart broken, break other people’s hearts, hate himself, and on the best of days find stuff to like about himself, too. Taken together, the stories in Self-Sabotage ask how you become the person you want to be when so much of yourself is a secret—and how you learn to accept yourself when it’s not. It is also, of course, side-splittingly funny.

©2025 Jeffery Self (P)2025 HarperAudio