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JONATHAN AMES is the author of I Pass Like Night; The Extra Man; What’s Not to Love?; My Less Than Secret Life; Wake Up, Sir!; I Love You More Than You Know; The Alcoholic; and The Double Life Is Twice As Good. He’s the creator of the HBO® Original Series Bored to Death and has had two amateur boxing matches, fighting as “The Herring Wonder.” For more information visit www.jonathanames.com.

Young Louis Ives, recently fired from his teaching position for cross-dressing, moves to New York City on a whim and finds himself rooming with a flamboyant, eccentric playwright. Ames's hilarious novel follows the pair to art openings, where they pig out on free food, and transvestite bars, where Louis's obsessions are rekindled.

San Francisco Chronicle

An endearing, entertaining story. . .a comic-erotic novel.

Contents

Chapter I

The Brassiere

There's to Be No Fornication

The Young Gentleman

Chapter II

Arrival

The Next Event

The Opera

The Extra Man

Otto Bellman and His Gang of Swiss Yodelers

Chapter III

I Felt Connected to Women All Over America

Porky Pig Fell Off a Cliff

An International Agreement on the Virtues of Chastity

The Recession Spankologist

Hot for Cockroach, Cold for Lead

Are You Jewish?

One of the Greatest Hoaxes of All Time

Chapter IV

We All Wanted to Be That Femme Fatale

I Met Someone Jewish

Americans Are Too Concerned with Athletics

Deep in Queens

Chapter V

The Jewish Duke of Windsor

Were There Animals?

This Is Only a Tape Recording

The Queen Has Fifty Rooms

Chapter VI

Four Gap-Toothed Dairy Maidens

Fort Schuyler

Breasts, Please

Cut Off Your Hair Like Salome

You'll Get an Erection and Then What Will I Do?

You've Brought So Much Toilet Paper into My Life

Chapter VII

Fleas, Cars, and Florida

The Whole City Has Fleas

He Saw a Piece of Cheese and Made Havoc with It

Chapter VIII

Straightish

My Analyst, Gershon Gruen

I Felt Something Under My Rear

Are You Having BMs?

The Essential Man

Chapter IX

Whatever Happened to Danny Kaye?

The Men Are Still in Charge Down There

Chapter X

She Wanted Me

People Are Dying, New Ones Are Coming Up

Otto Bellman Collects His Mail

Brassiere Revisited

Deep in Bay Ridge

All the Queens Were Dead

Chapter XI

I Was Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

That's All I Have to Say About America

The Life of a Fugitive

I Was Like Lady Macbeth

That's Very Good Cheese He's Eating

Lagerfeld Is Back In

A Tie Is Dipped

Chapter XII

It's Your Fellow Old People Who Tear You Down

Daphne Wants to Drink Cough Medicine and Smoke Cigarettes

Thank You, Dear Boy

Life Rushes By

You Look Practically Middle Class

A Girl as I Must Have First Imagined Girls

Russia