Witty, dark and explosively carnal, Diary of a Sex Addict chronicles a gay New Yorker's month-long descent into a circus of anonymous hook-ups as he struggles to erase the pain of a failed romance and blot out the routine of a soul-numbing day job. Bizarre gang-bangs and fleeting attempts at celibacy are interspersed with visits to his wealthy and eccentric dowager aunt, visits which awaken lost memories of a chaotic youth.

Written in prose that is at once poetic and unabashedly lewd, the novel offers a glimpse into a forbidden fringe world of longing and debauchery that ultimately reveals the narrator's fervent search for something to fill a profound emptiness. 

Inspired by the transgressive works of the Marquis de Sade, Dennis Cooper and Bret Easton Ellis, Diary of a Sex Addict blends wry humor, elegant language and graphic sex to offer a novel that is "relentlessly erotic and divinely written" (Richard Labonte, Bookmarks).



Scott Alexander Hess earned his MFA in creative writing from The New School. He blogs for The Huffington Post and his writing has appeared in Genre Magazine, The Fix, and elsewhere. Hess co-wrote Tom in America, an award-winning short film starring Sally Kirkland and Burt Young. His fourth novel, Skyscraper, was named a Lambda Literary Award 2016 Finalist, while his third novel, The Butcher's Sons, was named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015. His work, including his debut novel Diary of a Sex Addict, has been translated into German.



Scott teaches fiction writing at Gotham Writers in Manhattan. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, he now lives in Manhattan, New York, with his fiancé.



For more information, visit scottalexanderhess.com.