Little Cat

Two novels, two young women at the frontiers of sex. Like a series of Penthouse letters penned by Kathy Acker, Lie With Me recounts a woman's sexual escapades, picking up random men in bars for a series of increasingly extreme encounters, hoping to understand love from the far side of sluttiness. In The Way of the Whore , Mira, an introverted Jewish girl obsessed with Jean Genet, allows herself to be seduced by the sex industry, determined...