Editing Jim Goad (section)

====''Shit Magnet''====

''Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt'', is Goad's second book. Major New York publishing houses declined to publish ''Shit Magnet'',<ref name="Offend1">{{cite web |url=http://life.salon.com/2001/06/14/angry_males/ |title=I offend, therefore I am |author=Amy Benfer |year=2001 |work=Paul Shirley |publisher=Salon.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502145053/http://www.life.salon.com/2001/06/14/angry_males/ |archive-date=2 May 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=3 October 2011 }}</ref> and it was published in 2002 by [[Feral House]]. The book, written while Goad was in prison, is an [[autobiography]]. It examines Goad's childhood, teenage years, his relationships with former wife Debbie Goad and ex-girlfriend Anne Ryan, and reflections about his time in prison and his experience with the judicial system. The book includes great detail about Oregon prison life, including detailed descriptions about fellow prisoners, of whom he writes "forced sterilization maybe wasn't such a bad idea."<ref name="PXLife"/> Writer [[John Strausbaugh]] described ''Shit Magnet'' as "extremely painful" in detail and comparative in drama to the autobiography of [[Klaus Kinski]].<ref name="NYPress1"/> ''Humor is Dead'' calls ''Shit Magnet'' a "sordid and often shocking personal allegory of guilt and violence."<ref name="HumorisDead">{{cite web |url=http://www.humorisdead.com/news/goad.html |title=An Interview with Jim Goad |year=2003 |publisher=Humor is Dead |access-date=25 February 2012}}</ref> In 2008, a play titled "Torn Between Two Bitches," was produced in [[Los Angeles]] by Michael Sargent, based on ''Shit Magnet''.<ref name="LAist">{{cite web |url=http://laist.com/2008/10/30/torn_between_two_bitches_answer_me_gets_even_more_self-indulgent.php |title=Torn Between Two Bitches @ The Unknown Theater |author=Brian M. Clark |year=2008 |publisher=[[LAist]] |access-date=25 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615005732/http://laist.com/2008/10/30/torn_between_two_bitches_answer_me_gets_even_more_self-indulgent.php |archive-date=15 June 2011 }}</ref>