My Less Than Secret Life by Jonathan Ames

My Less Than Secret Life by Jonathan Ames

My Less Than Secret Life is the companion volume to Jonathan Ames's first memoirish endeavor, the mildly perverted and wildly amusing (Vanity Fair) What's Not to Love? This collection of the cult author's fiction and essays includes Ames's public diary, the bi-weekly columns he penned for the New York Press. The entries of this diary are a record of his mad adventures: his ill-fated debut as an amateur boxer fighting as -- The Herring Wonder', a faltering liaison with a Cuban prostitute, his public outing of George Plimpton as a Jew, his discussion with Eve Ensler about his dear friend The Mangina, a renegade mission as a Jew into the heart of Waspy Maine, and other such harrowing escapades. Whether trying to round up a partner for an orgy, politely assisting in an animal sacrifice, or scamming tickets to the WF's Royal Rumble for his son, Jonathan Ames proves himself a ballsier Everyman whose transgressions and compassionate meditations will satisfy the voyeur and encourage the halfhearted. But be warned. As Jonathan says, I don't like to be a bad influence. It's bad enough that I have influence over myself.

. . . Ames has always been one of my favorite contemporary writers . . . for his . . . fearless commitment to the most demanding psychosexual comedies. -- Rick Moody

I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, and What's Not to Love? are also by Jonathan Ames. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. He had two amateur boxing contests under the name The Herring Wonder, and he currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9781560253754
ISBN 10	1560253754
Title	My Less Than Secret Life
Author	Jonathan Ames
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Thunder's Mouth Press
Year published	2002-05-31
Number of pages	256
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