Credits

From Money by Martin Amis, copyright © 1984 by Martin Amis. Published in the U.S. by Viking Penguin and in the U.K. by Jonathan Cape. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. and the Random House Group, Ltd.

From Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, copyright © 1956 by James Baldwin. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

Excerpt from Crash by J.G. Ballard. Copyright © 1973 by J.G. Ballard. Reprinted by Permission of Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, LLC.

From Vox by Nicholson Baker. Copyright © 1992 by Nicholson Baker. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

From The Life I Lead by Keith Banner. Reprinted by permission of the author.

From Hell by Henri Barbusse, copyright © 1995. Reprinted by permission of Turtle Point Press.

From The Floating Opera by John Barth, copyright © 1967, 1968 by John Barth. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

From A Stranger in this World by Kevin Canty, copyright © 1994 by Kevin Canty. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

From Falconer by John Cheever. Copyright © 1975, 1977 by John Cheever. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

The Exeter Book, translated by Andrew Cole. Reprinted by permission of Andrew Cole.

“This Condition” from Almost No Memory by Lydia Davis. Copyright © 1997. Used by permission of Salt Hill, a division of Syracuse University Press.

Excerpts from The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, copyright © 1980 by Gruppo Editoriale Fabri-Bompiani, Sozogno, Etas S.p.A., English translation copyright © 1983 by Harcourt Inc. and Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.

From Serve It Forth by M.F.K. Fisher. Copyright © 1937, 1954, 1989 by M.F.K. Fisher.

From The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet, 1965 edition. Reprinted by permission of Grove Press.

From Neuromancer by William Gibson, copyright © 1984 by William Gibson. Used by permission of Putnam Berkley, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.

Excerpts from Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass, English translation by Ralph Manheim copyright © 1963 by Harcourt, Inc. and Martin Secker & Warburg Limited and renewed 1991 by Ralph Manheim, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.

Excerpt from Pan by Knut Hamsun, translated by James W. McFarlane. Copyright © 1956 and copyright renewed 1984 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Reprinted by Permission of Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, LLC

From Clit Notes by Holly Hughes, 1996 edition. Reprinted by permission of Grove Press.

The Art of Love by Ovid, translated by Rolfe Humphries. Reprinted by permission of Indiana University Press.

From Fear of Flying by Erica Jong, © 1973 by Erica Mann Jong. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company LLC.

From Ironweed by William Kennedy, copyright © 1979, 1981, 1983 by William Kennedy. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.

From My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner. Copyright © 1990 by Mark Leyner. Reprinted by permission of Harmony Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

From The Plaint of Nature by Alain de Lille. © 1980 Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

From Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, copyright © 1986 by Editora Nova Fronteira, English translation. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

From Sexus by Henry Miller, 1965 edition. Reprinted by permission of Grove Press.

From Beloved by Toni Morrison. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc. Copyright © 1987 by Toni Morrison, published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.

Excerpts from “Elena” in Delta of Venus by Anais Nin, copyright © 1977 by The Anais Nin Trust, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.

From Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, copyright © 1973 by Thomas Pynchon. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.

From Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth. Copyright © 1969 by Philip Roth. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

“Roughhouse” by Thaddeus Rutkowski. Reprinted by permission of the author. Published by Kaya, New York 1999.

From Justine by the Marquis de Sade, 1965 edition. Reprinted by permission of Grove Press.

From Rabbit Redux by John Updike. Copyright © 1971 by John Updike. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

“Profile of a Human Being” from In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane. Copyright ©1990 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, LLC. Reprinted by Permission of Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, LLC

From Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., copyright © 1973 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Used by permission of Dell Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc.

From Sexing the Cherry. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc. Copyright © 1989 by Jeanette Winterson.