Books
December, 1998
After nearly a year of Monica Lewinsky and the dismissal of oral sex as no sex at all, it's a relief to read Chronicle Books' Going Down: Lip Service From Great Writers. Some of the writers are literary---Oscar Wilde, Anaïs Nin, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Philip Roth and Harold Brodkey. Some---Erica Jong, Frank Zappa, Anka Radakovich---are just bawdy. Here's Nin on the subject: "As he was pinned under her, she was the one to move within reach of his mouth, which had not touched her yet. Sh...
