11. The “Star Whackers” are a group of assassins who hunt down and kill Hollywood celebrities. Q: Where do we donate?

2. Before her cure, she was holed up in her château dictating one much-worked-on line a day to Andréa, who would type it up. Then they would start uncorking cheap Bordeaux and she’d drink two glasses, vomit, then continue on till she’d drunk as many as nine liters and would pass out. She could no longer walk, or scarcely. She said she drank because she knew God did not exist. Her very sympathetic doctor would visit her almost daily and offer to take her to the hospital, but only if she wanted to live. She seemed undecided for a long time but at last she opted for life since she was determined to finish a book that she’d already started and was very keen about.

1414. Soft Skull Press is sort of dead, I guess.

9. The correct number of beer (s) to drink before a public reading? (You are reading.)

5. I didn’t know The S.C.U.M (Society for Cutting Up Men) manifesto was online. It is. Here you go:

It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so.

Women, in other words, don’t have penis envy; men have pussy envy.

SCUM will couple-bust — barge into mixed (male-female) couples, wherever they are, and bust them up.