Arceneaux's "hysterically funny, vulnerable" style, calling the collection "a triumph of self-exploration, tinged with but not overburdened by his reckoning with our current political moment...The result is a piece of personal and cultural storytelling that is as fun as it is illuminating." I Don't Want to Die Poor Arceneaux's second book, I Don't Want to Die Poor (2020), expands on his essay for The New York Times describing his private student loan debt. See also History of the African Americans in Houston LGBT culture in Houston Christianity in Houston References External links Official site Interview with Arceneaux by Mary H.K. Choi on the Hey, Cool Job! podcast, July 20, 2018 Interview with Arceneaux on Desus & Mero Interview with Arceneaux on Fresh Air, July 23, 2018 Living people 1984 births Writers from Houston Howard University alumni American humorists 21st-century American essayists American gay writers LGBT African Americans LGBT people from Texas Former Roman Catholics Critics of the Catholic Church 21st-century African-American writers 20th-century African-American people African-American male writers