The Good Parts : The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction Book

On Finding the Good Parts—A Reader's Preface	xi
Chronology	xxiii
"Kathy Goes to Haiti" from Literal Madness Kathy Acker	1
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow	6
"Only You" from Come to Me Amy Bloom	13
The Geography of Desire Robert Boswell	17
"Innocence" from Stories in an Almost Classical Mode Harold
Brodkey	21
Harry and Catherine Frederick Busch	36
They Whisper Robert Olen Butler	40
"What Girls Are Made Of" from Melting Point Pat Califia	46
"The Star Cafe" from The Star Cafe and Other Stories Mary
Caponegro	51
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Michael Chabon	57
"Lyricism" from The Point Charles D'Ambrosio	60
Players Don DeLillo	63
Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow	67
"World of Women" from All Set About with Fever Trees Pam
Durban	71
The Invisible Circus Jennifer Egan	74
ARC D'X Steve Erickson	80
Nude Men Amanda Filipacchi	83
Family Night MariaFlook	87
"Processing" from Because They Wanted To Mary Gaitskill	91
The Mind-Body Problem Rebecca Goldstein	97
The Other Side Mary Gordon	104
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos	107
"Chunky in Heat" from The Safety of Objects A. M. Homes	110
Daughters of Song Paula Huston	119
The Blindfold Siri Hustvedt	125
Middle Passage Charles Johnson	129
Dancer with Bruised Knees Lynne McFall	133
Going to the Sun James McManus	136
Natural Tendencies Joan Mellen	140
Katherine Anchee Min	147
The Courtyard of Dreams Anna Monardo	152
"The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven" from The Ring of
Brightest Angels Around Heaven Rick Moody	155
The Whiteness of Bones Susanna Moore	162
Jazz Toni Morrison	165
"Old Budapest" from Last Days Joyce Carol Oates	168
These Same Long Bones Gwendolyn M. Parker	172
Martin and John Dale Peck	174
The Professor of Desire Philip Roth	178
"Plaisir D'Amour" from Acquainted with the Night Lynne
Sharon Schwartz	181
Playing with Fire Dani Shapiro	185
Touch Charlotte Watson Sherman	192
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley	196
The Volcano Lover Susan Sontag	201
Endless Love Scott Spencer	205
Sophie's Choice William Styron	211
Museum Pieces Elizabeth Tallent	216
The Paper Anniversary Joan Wickersham	219