A perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel, William E.
Jones brings the same unsparing and profane attitude to I\'m Open to Anything, his debut novel..
Jones\'s previous book, True Homosexual Experiences (also published by We Heard You Like Books), a biography of Straight to Hell\'s iconoclastic editor Boyd McDonald, celebrates the frank, raunchy language of the first queer \'zine.
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The book recalls Olympia Press\'s heyday, when authors made quick money churning out dirty books, but couldn\'t hide the intellectual obsessions that made them writers in the first place.
Alternating between explicit scenes of kinky sex and intimate conversations about matters of life and death, I\'m Open to Anything is a porno novel of rare ambition and humor.
They too have fled their hometowns: one to escape torture at the hands of a Salvadoran death squad; another to study anthropology after years of wandering and religious questioning.
He acquires the skill of fisting, giving his partners intense pleasure, and at the same time hearing the stories of their lives.
He explores his adopted city and befriends a number of men, most of them immigrants, who teach him the finer points of sex.
The book\'s narrator flees a crumbling industrial wasteland in the Midwest and finds himself in sunny Los Angeles without a car, working in a neighborhood video store and spending many hours watching films.
Jones\'s I\'m Open to Anything explores bohemian Southern California of the late 1980s and early 90s, before gentrification ruined everything.
A perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel, William E
