Table of Contents
Introduction vii
1 Erica Heller and Joseph Heller 1
2 Clarence Major and James Baldwin 4
3 Brook Ashley and Tallulah Bankhead 13
4 Al Díaz and Jean-Michel Basquiat 26
5 Muffie Meyer and Little Edie Beale 32
6 Daniel Bellow and Saul Bellow 39
7 Carinthia West and David Bowie 49
8 Aviva Layton and William Burroughs 56
9 Benjamin Cheever and John Cheever 60
10 Sara Moulton and Julia Child 71
11 The Rev. George Pitcher and Jesus Christ 79
12 David Layton and Leonard Cohen 86
13 Kirk Douglas and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch 91
14 Jesse Kornbluth and Nora Ephron 94
15 Elwood H. Smith and Nancy Boyer Feindt 99
16 David Breithaupt and Allen Ginsberg 107
17 Phyllis Raphael and Max Glezos-Chartoff 111
18 Stephanie Pierson and Marcella Hazan 116
19 Margaret Heilbrun and Carolyn Heilbrun and her pseudonym, Amanda Cross 124
20 Joe Lewis and Jimi Hendrix 131
21 Hussein Ibish and Christopher Kitchens 137
22 Allegra Huston and Enrica "Ricki" Soma 151
23 Lee Clow and Steve Jobs 157
24 Kaylie Jones and James Jones 162
25 RF Jurjevics and Juris Jurjevics 176
26 Nancy Evans and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 184
27 Hilma Wolitzer and Maxine Kumin 190
28 Cathy Ladman and Leo Ladman 192
29 Caroline Leavitt and Henry Leavitt 200
30 Elizabeth Mailer and Norman Mailer 208
31 Merrill Markoe and Ronny Markoe 215
32 Bob Balaban and Groucho Marx 226
33 Malachy McCourt and Frank McCourt 231
34 Rick Moody and Meredith Moody 237
35 Dahlia Lithwick and Paul Newman 245
36 Kate O'Toole and Peter O'Toole 251
37 Taja Sevelle and Prince 259
38 Rain Pryor and Richard Pryor 267
39 Christopher Rauschenberg and Robert Rauschenberg 270
40 Robert Chalmers and Lou Reed 274
41 Adrien G. Lesser and Oliver Sacks 286
42 Anne Serling and Rod Serling 290
43 Dan Allentuck and Maureen Stapleton 296
44 Tracy Tynan and Kenneth Tynan 302
45 Mark Vonnegut and Kurt Vonnegut 311
46 Richard Bausch and Eudora Welty 313
47 Cameron West and Robin Williams 316
48 James Grissom and Tennessee Williams 325
49 Richard Lewis and Jonathan Winters 329
50 Erica Heller and Joseph Heller 334
Acknowledgments 342
