Norman Mailer too is on there, even though he brings in a half-hooker doll who dismantles the bulb because there is too much light on their table, which Elaine is not having because these are her five-dollar fixtures from way back, and she tells her to get her ass out and never again to screw around with her light bulbs, which she never does.

ECONOMIST: Elaine Kaufman

An ass that could drag the moon out of orbit.

NEWYORKER: Alma

" That sounded good, and so after our last game, which I won easily, I also yelled out, "I'm a grown-ass man.

NPR: Chapter 1

That moment they light the fuse under your ass it's a sense of total freedom because I knew then nobody could get me out and no phone call could modify what I was doing there.

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