The Good Parts The Best Erotic Writing in

They imbued their art with the truth about love and sex and seduction. They pushed erotic writing to the center stage of American fiction. They took risks, fed our imaginations, and explored our fantasies. Drawn from the works of dozens of the best contemporary American writers, The Good Parts is American writing at its most unabashedly erotic.

On Finding the Good Parts---A Reader's Preface

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Chronology

xxiii

``Kathy Goes to Haiti'' from Literal Madness

1

(5)

Kathy Acker

The Adventures of Augie March

6

(7)

Saul Bellow

``Only You'' from Come to Me

13

(4)

Amy Bloom

The Geography of Desire

17

(4)

Robert Boswell

``Innocence'' from Stories in an Almost Classical Mode

21

(15)

Harold Brodkey

Harry and Catherine

36

(4)

Frederick Busch

They Whisper

40

(6)

Robert Olen Butler

``What Girls Are Made Of'' from Melting Point

46

(5)

Pat Califia

``The Star Cafe'' from The Star Cafe and Other Stories

51

(6)

Mary Caponegro

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

57

(3)

Michael Chabon

``Lyricism'' from The Point

60

(3)

Charles D'Ambrosio

Players

63

(4)

Don DeLillo

Billy Bathgate

67

(4)

E. L. Doctorow

``World of Women'' from All Set About with Fever Trees

71

(3)

Pam Durban

The Invisible Circus

74

(6)

Jennifer Egan

ARC D'X

80

(3)

Steve Erickson

Nude Men

83

(4)

Amanda Filipacchi

Family Night

87

(4)

Maria Flook

``Processing'' from Because They Wanted To

91

(6)

Mary Gaitskill

The Mind-Body Problem

97

(7)

Rebecca Goldstein

The Other Side

104

(3)

Mary Gordon

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

107

(3)

Oscar Hijuelos

``Chunky in Heat'' from The Safety of Objects

110

(9)

A. M. Homes

Daughters of Song

119

(6)

Paula Huston

The Blindfold

125

(4)

Siri Hustvedt

Middle Passage

129

(4)

Charles Johnson

Dancer With Bruised Knees

133

(3)

Lynne McFall

Going to the Sun

136

(4)

James McManus

Natural Tendencies

140

(7)

Joan Mellen

Katherine

147

(5)

Anchee Min

The Courtyard of Dreams

152

(3)

Anna Monardo

``The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven'' from The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven

155

(7)

Rick Moody

The Whiteness of Bones

162

(3)

Susanna Moore

Jazz

165

(3)

Toni Morrison

``Old Budapest'' from Last Days

168

(4)

Joyce Carol Oates

These Same Long Bones

172

(2)

Gwendolyn M. Parker

Martin and John

174

(4)

Dale Peck

The Professor of Desire

178

(3)

Philip Roth

``Plaisir D'Amour'' from Acquainted with the Night

181

(4)

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Playing with Fire

185

(7)

Dani Shapiro

Touch

192

(4)

Charlotte Watson Sherman

A Thousand Acres

196

(5)

Jane Smiley

The Volcano Lover

201

(4)

Susan Sontag

Endless Love

205

(6)

Scott Spencer

Sophie's Choice

211

(5)

William Styron

Museum Pieces

216

(3)

Elizabeth Tallent

The Paper Anniversary

219

Joan Wickersham

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