Part I: The Herring Wonder: A Diary of Travel, Boxing, and Some Sex

A Very Brief Introduction

Before I Became `The Herring Wonder'

Jesus Christ Doesn't Sound like a Jewish Name April 27, 1999

Restraint of Tongue and Penis May 11, 1999

Shades of the Prison-House May 25, 1999

The Curse of the Fried Plantain June 8, 1999

I Should Sue Myself for Libel June 22, 1999

Jew England July 6, 1999

The Tenderloin July 20, 1999

A Live Death August 3, 1999

Into Thin Hair August 17, 1999

The Orgy August, 31, 1999

After I Became `the Herring Wonder'

The Vanilla Thrilla September 14, 1999

My Jewish Cousin, George Ames Plimpton September 28, 1999

President Clinton: My Hero October 12, 1999

The Sacrifice October 26, 1999

The Fight

November 9, 1999 Part 1

November 11, 1999 Part 2

No Longer ``The Herring Wonder''

Jonathan Libre! November 23, 1999

Kooba, Si! December 23, 1999

Shut the Fuck Up January 4, 2000

Booty and the Beast January 18, 2000

The Long Au Revoir February 1, 2000

PART II: fic'tion, n. Feigning, invention; thing feigned or imagined, invented statement or narrative; literature consisting of such narrative, esp. novels, whence-IST (3) (-shon-) n.; conventionally accepted falsehood. (esp. legal, polite,~). Hence~AL (-shon-) a. [F, f. L fictionem (prec.,-ION)]

A Young Girl

Too Far Away, Love

My Flower

Good Night, My Dear

Womb Shelter

PART III: A True Crime Story: The Nista Affair

The Nista Affair

Commercial Intermission: Book jacket Flap Copy I Wrote for My Other Books

PART IV: Criticism (well, actually, compliments)

John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards

Shtupping (Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex, edited by Melvin Jules Bukiet)

Of Breasts and Transhistories (The Woman I Was Not Born to Be: A Transsexual Journey, by Aleshia Brevard)

No Quiffs, Ends, or Buttocks About Tit! (Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995, by Terry Southern, edited by Niles Southern and Josh Alan Friedman)

PART V: Essays with Sexual Content (A warnong or a recommendation, depending on your personality)

The Eulenspiegel Society

Some Thoughts on the Crapper

The Gay Nineties

Friending

Penis Enlargement

The Pop (definition: cum-shot) My Pop (definition: dad)

Going to Work with My Son

PART VI: Essays without Sexual Content (A Warnong or a recommendation, depending on your personality)

A Dog's Life

Forty Dollars

I Love You More Than That

Bice

GERMS!

My Body is Like a House

The Eleventh Commandment

A Boy's Guide to Drinking and Dreaming