From Maggie Estep, heralded author of Diary of an Emotional Idiot, comes this darkly funny collection of inter-connected stories.
Jody Ray, a young psychiatrist, conceals her own nymphomania -- and a penchant for stiletto boots -- behind a conservative navy work suit. After Jody meets Rob and moves into his apartment, life for this nice, normal Jewish boy from Chicago will never be the same. Even without the speed she shoots to get through medical school, Jody's sexual and emotional demands would have pushed poor Rob to the suicide attempt that eventually turns him into one of...

Sensitive Skin Number 11 contains writing by Arthur Nersesian, Sparrow, Deborah Pintonelli, Alan Kaufman, Joshua Mohr, Celia Farber, Lynn McGee, Rebecca Weiner Tompkins, Marc Olmsted, D. Scot Miller, Marian St. Laurent, Edward S. Robinson (interviewing Dire McCain), Margarita Shalina, Anonymous, Steve Dalachinsky and Maggie Estep, along with a painting portolio by Stephen Lack, photographs by Gretchen Faust, Dennis Gordon and Evelyn Bencicova, and more "