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Alice Denham's lusty memoir is a juicy tell-all about a time when male writers were gods and an aspiring and gorgeous female novelist tries to win respect--and sometimes more. Caught between the sheets are James Dean, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Philip Roth, and William Gaddis. The steam rises page by page as Denham the only Playboy Playmate to have her fiction published in the same issue as her centerfold--chases her dream of writing as a young, oversexed beauty in the literary swirl of 1950s Greenwich Village, New York City,
- Sales Rank: #836894 in Books
- Published on: 2013-12-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .69" w x 5.50" l, .78 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Denham, an essayist, television writer and the only woman whose fiction and breasts have appeared in the same issue of Playboy, offers up a fast-paced memoir that chronicles how a pretty girl from suburban Washington ended up on a bar stool at the storied Lion's Head. Run-ins with notorious figures-Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Marlon Brando, Hugh Hefner-pepper nearly every page, though readers interested in the hot dirt promised by the flap copy will be disappointed, as the "bad boys" here come off as little more than horny juveniles, and Denham skimps on the steam when she sacks with, say, James Dean. Most of the narrative is consumed with her slow-out-of-the-gate literary career that limps along; as her peers became icons, Denham modeled until the gigs dried up, and then wrote freelance. Though Denham reveals little that isn't widely known (Roth is a perv, Mailer is a freak), the sheer number of names dropped and follies recounted make for a fast and fun read.
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About the Author
Alice Denham is the author of three novels and has written articles for Cosmopolitan, The Nation, New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, The Village Voice, and The Washingtonian. She lives in New York City and San Miguel, Mexico.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Lit Celeb Sex
By Jim Morris
The title of this book promises lots of steamy sex, and it delivers in spades. Denham loved sex, and makes no bones about it. From a strategic location in Greenwich Village she knew the leading literary lights of the fifties and sixties, and slept with any of them she cared to. Her descriptions are not so much graphic as emotionally complete. Some of her flights of lyricism are so wonderful that the male reader gets to experience what he can never experience, how it feels to a woman in the throes of ecstacy.
But, although Denham slept with a lot of stars, she was no starjumper. She politely turned down some of the biggest lit stars of the era, and managed to maintain good friendships with them at the same time. Her morality was not conventional, but nonetheless it was there. In the sixties when swinging came into vogue, and Plato's Retreat was the new hot thing in New York she was simply turned off by that scene. She did not require love, but she did require at least friendship and chemistry.
But, in spite of the title, and in spite of the beauty of the way it's rendered, sex is not the best thing about this book. The description of the lit life of the era surpasses that, and the description of the difficulties of being female at a time when women were second class, not thought worthy of their typewriters surpasses that. The best chapters of this book describe her friendship with Katherine Anne Porter. This is fine writing, deeply touching, and a great story.
Denham has never been given the credit she deserves as a serious writer. She is not merely good. She is magnificent.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Invaluable Literary History
By Steven Moore
Though this smart, well-written book will mostly be bought for its gossip, "Sleeping with Bad Boys" is an invaluable literary history source for certain American writers who emerged in the 1950s. We learn much about underappreciated novelist David Markson, for example, and especially about William Gaddis, for whom little biographical info exists. (Two of his letters are quoted in their entirety.) There are eye-opening passages about Mailer, Roth, Heller, Porter, and others, and shocking accounts of how old-boy misogyny persisted in the publishing community throughout the Sixties. This is probably the only work of literary history with a photo-insert of pinup images, but this an enlightening, impassioned book that deserves a wide readership.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Boys and Girls Together
By Kevin Killian
If you love the AMC TV series THE MAD MEN, with its highly stylized picture of Manhattan life circa 1960, you have to read this book! Alice Denham is a trip! "Manhattan was a river of men flowing past my door, and when I was thirsty I drank." I haven't read any of her novels, but she can certainly spin a juicy tale. You have to admire her chutzpah, setting off from Jacksonville to hit New York during an era in which women were seen as inferior, especially writing women, and in fact they were often "not seen" at all--Denham refers to herself and others as "invisible women," after Ralph Ellison's classic novel INVISIBLE MAN. In a sense they were invisible even to other women, taught that marriage is the ultimate act of love and that a woman's destiny is to become a supportive wife to her husband. Other women were competition. Alice Denham does, however, sketch a memorable portrait of one fellow woman writer, the much older Katherine Anne Porter, with whom she became drinking pals. "She was my literary guru, powerful as the ancient Aztec goddess of earth and fire, Coatlicue."
She has a long memory and never forgets a slight, nor has she forgotten the equipment of any man she ever knew.. Somehow, fresh from college, Denham managed to find herself involved with many of the movers and shakers of New York culture of the period (roughly 1953 through 1965), when living in New York, she claims, was like Paris in the 1920s. I must correct an earlier reviewer of Denham's book. It was not James Dean who had the small "apparatus," no, his was perfectly average and OK--you're thinking of James Jones whose tiny little thumblike thing certainly did not send Miss Denham from here to eternity. (Though Jones made up for it in other ways!) The one bad boy who appears most often is Norman Mailer, whom oddly enough Denham never did sleep with. She is utterly convincing as a portraitist, with a gift for the telling physical characteristic; among other things her book might be used to reconstruct the physical likenesses of all her leading figures, even if all photographs, paintings, and films of them were to vanish in an instant. Jones had "an abnormally long head front to back while, incomprehensibly, his features were bunched together in the squalling center of his face." Don't you love the touch of that "squalling"? She's a poet from top to toe. "William Gaddis looked New England Gothic, slight, rail-thin with a highboned narrow face, bony hands, yet an insinuating air." Here it's the word "yet" that does all the work, gives us Gaddis to the life. Naked, he's "only slightly muscled, but sporting a fine centerpiece
Throughout all the bedroom hijinx (in what other modernist's memoir will you find out that the late film composer Leonard Rosenman had a fondness for--well, I can't even say it on this family based website?) she never loses her throughline, which is her heartfelt attempt to write a great novel and then to get it published. Again and again she gets the rebuff from nasty male editors who just want her to continue with her career as a Playmate and/or to become a "hostess." Finally she gets somebody to believe in her wild vision and MY DARLING FROM THE LIONS gets published. In the meantime the guys she resents are often enough the ones who are great in bed. Evan S. Connell Jr was the king stud, "tall, noble, with strong perfectly proportioned features and observant eyes, black as his hair. The royal bearing of an Indian chieftain. Was he descended from Sacajawea and Chabonneau?"
In her slightly ironic style, Denham is sometimes so anxious to avoid four letter words that she gets a little cryptic, and some of her touches are sort of odd. "As he passed me, Philip Roth tried to tweak my mound by ramming his paw into my lap." But all in all SLEEPING WITH BAD BOYS is a masterpiece of wrath, tenderness, and compassion, and I predict it will someday outshine most of the "boy's books" that defined literature for Denham's generation.
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