Paul Solotaroff is a contributing editor at Men's Journal and Rolling Stone. He has written features for Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine, and he was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2004. His work has been included in Best American Sports Writing. The author of two books, Group and The House of Purple Hearts, he lives in New York City.
"as Solotaroff explains in The Body Shop, his smart and funny book
that chronicles his own summer of steroids, using drugs often comes
with a terrible physical and emotional price."--Michael O?Keeffe,
New York Daily News
"[A] very well-written and surprisingly tender book.... Whatever
the depth and duration of [Solotaroff's] crises of confidence,
though, this book shows that he was always a writer at
heart."--Megan Buskey, New York Times Book Review
"Delivered in a suitably amped prose style, the story casts light
on the early days of bodybuilding and gym culture, before New York
Sports Clubs existed in every neighborhood"--Steven Kurutz, Wall
Street Journal
"I can't tell you in strong enough terms how terrific Paul
Solotaroff's new book, The Body Shop, is. We spend a lot of time
wringing our hands about steroids, and not nearly enough discussing
the powerful lures and temptations of building perfect bodies. Take
a tour through this eloquent memoir and it will make a lot more
sense."--Mike Vaccaro, The New York Post
"It's fantastic."--Dan Fogarty, Sportsgrid.com
"Solotaroff is a respected journalist who writes for Men's Journal
and Rolling Stone... But in the mid-1970s, he was a college student
who got into weight lifting and steroids, and followed his
obsession into a life as a male stripper and a drug addict who
attended orgies in the wild world of New York in the disco era. The
Body Shop is a cautionary tale that's also an entertaining
time-trip into the recent past."--Jeff Baker, The Oregonian
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