That Taste Again

A foray into a world of erotic hypnosis, gender transformation, love, lust, and poetry That Taste Again follows Jonathan Direx, who explores new boundaries of his identity on the phone, on the web, and in person. Distinctions between friend and lover, gay and straight, and real and unreal all but deteriorate as Jonathan discovers the impenetrable dynamics powering every relationship. The vivid characters in this book include an impotent existential pedant, a cunning nymphet, a 40-year old Professor who exudes Platonic charm to woo younger men, a British woman caught between her erotic attraction to Jesus and her love for whiskey, and a 36-year old phone sex operator who once weighed 300lbs and, at the time of the book, lives alone with her dying grandmother. Often hilarious, tragic, and disturbing this book tours a world that is all too accessible to so many of us in this hyper-charged millennium. This exploration of a cyber-libertine living in Brooklyn (recall: Henry Miller and Georges Bataille) marks a new turn in the tradition of literary smut.