# My Less Than Secret Life

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- Authors: [Jonathan Ames](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-ames)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2002-05-31

## Description

My Less Than Secret Life is the companion volume to Jonathan Ames's first memoirish endeavor, " the mildly perverted and wildly amusing" (Vanity Fair) What's Not to Love? This collection of the cult author's fiction and essays includes Ames's public diary, the bi-weekly columns he penned for the New York Press. The entries of this diary are a record of his mad adventures: his ill-fated debut as an amateur boxer fighting as'The Herring Wonder', a faltering liaison with a Cuban prostitute, his public outing of George Plimpton as a Jew, his discussion with Eve Ensler about his dear friend The Mangina, a renegade mission as a Jew into the heart of Waspy Maine, and other such harrowing escapades. Whether trying to round up a partner for an orgy, politely assisting in an animal sacrifice, or scamming tickets to the WWF's Royal Rumble for his son, Jonathan Ames proves himself a ballsier Everyman whose transgressions and compassionate meditations will satisfy the voyeur and encourage the halfhearted. But be warned. As Jonathan says, " I don't like to be a bad influence. It's bad enough that I have influence over myself." "... Ames has always been one of my favourite contemporary writers ... for his ... fearless commitment to the most demanding psychosexual comedies.",Rick Moody

## Editions

### My Less Than Secret Life

- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-15-6025-375-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-05-31
- Language: en_GB