The Naughty Bits

by MURNIGHAN, JACK

• ISBN13: 9780609806609
• ISBN10: 0609806602
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-05-29
• Publisher: Broadway Books

Summary

The literary education you've always lusted for. Fresh from the virtual pages of Nerve.com comes this collection of "naughty bits," an irreverent look into the steamy, scandalous side of literature past and present. With bite-sized salacious excerpts from the classics -- new and old -- each with a fresh, insightful introduction,The Naughty Bitspresents the world's great books as you never thought you'd see them. Includes naughty bits by: Dante D. H. Lawrence Philip Roth Goethe Toni Morrison Julio Cortazar John Cheever William Shakespeare Thaddeus Rutkowski John Donne Thomas Malory Gunter Grass Herman Melville John Barth Ernest Hemingway Erica Jong Thomas Carew M. F. K. Fisher William Kennedy Jeanette Winterson Paul West Harry Mathews Catullus Clarice Lispector Giovanni Boccaccio James Baldwin Nicholson Baker Tom Wolfe John Wilmot Kevin Canty Plato James Joyce Lydia Davis Francois Rabelais Kenneth Starr Henry Miller John Updike Geoffrey Chaucer Marquis de Sade Sir Philip Sidney Holly Hughes Martin Amis Andrew Marvell The Pearl Poet Thomas Pynchon Sappho William Gibson Mark Leyner Margery Kempe Jean Genet Edmund Spenser John Cleland Kurt Vonnegut Anais Nin Petronius Keith Banner Umberto Eco J. G. Ballard Mario Vargas Llosa Ovid Jean de Meun Catherine Breillat George Eliot Kenzaburo Oe Cormac McCarthy Larry Flynt Rupert Brooke The Old Testament

Author Biography

Jack Murnighan received a Ph.D. in literature from Duke University in 1999 while editor-in-chief of Nerve.com, the website that pioneered "literary smut." At Nerve he coedited (with Genevieve Field) the short story collection <b>Full Frontal Fiction</b> (Three Rivers Press, 2000). He now writes essays and fiction full-time. His stories have been chosen for <b>The Best American Erotica </b>in 1999, 2000, and 2001.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
The Inferno	3	(2)
Dante
Lady Chatterley's Lover	5	(3)
D. H. Lawrence
Portnoy's Complaint	8	(2)
Philip Roth
``Roman Elegy 5''	10	(2)
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Beloved	12	(2)
Toni Morrison
Hopscotch	14	(2)
Julio Cortazar
Falconer	16	(3)
John Cheever
``One Thing, Baudoin''	19	(3)
Thibaut De Champagne
``The Rape of Lucrece''	22	(3)
William Shakespeare
Roughhouse	25	(2)
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Pan	27	(4)
Knut Hamsun
Elegy XIX: ``To His Mistress Going to Bed''	31	(3)
John Donne
Le morte d'Arthur	34	(2)
Thomas Malory
Cat and Mouse	36	(3)
Gunter Grass
Moby Dick	39	(3)
Herman Melville
The Floating Opera	42	(3)
John Barth
A Moveable Feast	45	(2)
Ernest Hemingway
My Secret Life	47	(3)
Anonymous
``A Rapture''	50	(5)
Thomas Carew
Serve It Forth	55	(3)
M. F. K. Fisher
Ironweed	58	(3)
William Kennedy
Sexing the Cherry	61	(3)
Jeanette Winterson
Portable People	64	(3)
Paul West
The Theogony	67	(3)
Hesiod
Singular Pleasures	70	(3)
Harry Mathews
Poems	73	(3)
Catullus
Near to the Wild Heart	76	(3)
Clarice Lispector
The Decameron	79	(6)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni's Room	85	(3)
James Baldwin
Orlando Furioso	88	(2)
Ludovico Ariosto
Vox	90	(2)
Nicholson Baker
A Man in Full	92	(2)
Tom Wolfe
``The Imperfect Enjoyment''	94	(3)
John Wilmot
Earl of Rochester
``Pretty Judy''	97	(2)
Kevin Canty
Ulysses	99	(2)
James Joyce
The Symposium	101	(3)
Plato
Justine	104	(2)
Lawrence Durrell
``This Condition''	106	(2)
Lydia Davis
Pantagruel: Third Book	108	(2)
Francois Rabelais
Voluptuous Sonnets	110	(3)
Pietro Aretino
The Starr Report	113	(3)
Kenneth Starr
Hell	116	(3)
Henri Barbusse
The Plaint of Nature	119	(2)
Alain De Lille
Sexus	121	(2)
Henry Miller
Rabbit Redux	123	(2)
John Updike
Crash	125	(3)
J. G. Ballard
The Canterbury Tales	128	(4)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Justine	132	(2)
Marquis De Sade
The Death of the Novel	134	(2)
Ronald Sukenick
Astrophil and Stella, ``Sonnet 59''	136	(2)
Sir Philip Sidney
Clit Notes	138	(3)
Holly Hughes
Money	141	(2)
Martin Amis
In Praise of the Stepmother	143	(2)
Mario Vargas Llosa
``To His Coy Mistress''	145	(2)
Andrew Marvell
``Cleanness''	147	(2)
The Pearl Poet
Gravity's Rainbow	149	(4)
Thomas Pynchon
``Anactoria''	153	(2)
Sappho
Neuromancer	155	(2)
William Gibson
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist	157	(2)
Mark Leyner
The Book of Margery Kempe	159	(3)
Margery Kempe
The Thief's Journal	162	(2)
Jean Genet
The Faerie Queene	164	(3)
Edmund Spenser
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure	167	(4)
John Cleland
The Exeter Book	171	(3)
Anonymous
``Elena''	174	(2)
Anais Nin
The Satyricon	176	(3)
Petronius
The Name of the Rose	179	(3)
Umberto Eco
The Life I Lead	182	(6)
Keith Banner
Breakfast of Champions	188	(2)
Kurt Vonnegut
The Kama Sutra	190	(3)
Vatsyayana
Fear of Flying	193	(3)
Erica Jong
The Art of Love	196	(3)
Ovid
The Romance of the Rose	199	(4)
Jean De Meun
Autumn of the Patriarch	203	(2)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
``Libido''	205	(2)
Rupert Brooke
The Arabian Nights	207	(2)
Sir Richard Burton
An Unseemly Man	209	(2)
Larry Flynt
Kenneth Ross
The Kisses	211	(2)
Johannes Secundus
``Lucky Pierre''	213	(3)
Guillaume IX
A Man for the Asking	216	(3)
Catherine Breillat
Adam Bede	219	(4)
George Eliot
J	223	(2)
Kenzaburo Oe
Child of God	225	(2)
Cormac Mccarthy
The Old Testament	227	(6)
Acknowledgments	233	(2)
Credits	235	(4)
About the Author	239