“One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.”

“Even now, my ideal for writing fiction is to put Dostoyevsky and Chandler together in one book.”

A lesson on how not to get laid.There are books a young man with literary pretensions should read if he wants to get laid—see the other entries in this department—and then there's Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. This slim little packet of socia…