false 331579 6 Amy Sohn lives in New York, where she writes a raunchy column for the <I>New York Press</I> called "Female Trouble." Her first novel features a young woman named Ariel Steiner, who lives in New York and writes a raunchy column called "Run Catch Kiss" for <I>City Week</I>. Any other similarities between author and creation are, no doubt, purely accidental. We first meet Ariel the summer after her graduation from college when she returns to the city, ready to resume the acting career she had as a child. Unfortunately, college not only enlarged Ariel's mind--it had a broadening effect on her body as well. "I can't send you out for any ingenue parts until you lose fifteen pounds," her agent tells her. Ariel is sure this won't take long and indulges in an optimistic fantasy about the fame and fortune that will soon come her way once she's lost the weight--an appearance in a George C. Wolfe production; a walk-on in a George Clooney film; an Oscar-winning performance in a Woody Allen movie, complete with requisite Oscar fantasy: "I'd bring my father as my date, and when Jack Palance opened the envelope and announced me as the winner, I'd run up to the stage in a strapless Chanel and they'd cut to a shot of my dad drowning in a sea of his own mucus." But until the day when Ariel Steiner becomes the third part of a Hollywood girl-triumvirate comprised of herself, Gwyneth, and Winona, a girl's got to eat; and so begins a ribaldly picaresque journey from actress wannabe to infamous New York sex columnist--"the Hester Prynne of downtown." <p> <I>Run Catch Kiss</I> is a novel that will appeal to a very specific audience--fans of Amy Sohn; young college graduates who'd like to imagine it's really this easy to achieve notoriety in a city like New York; and readers who enjoy lots of name-dropping, club-hopping, and frank descriptions of sex and other bodily functions. Sohn includes several of Ariel's columns ("Stench of a Woman," for example, or "Smutlife") as well as the letters she gets in response. In between, Ariel and her cronies and assorted one-night stands hang out in places with names like BarF and BarBarella, and drop pop references to Gen-X movies and music. Sohn delivers it all up with moxie, making up for the novel's literary weaknesses by sheer full-frontal outrageousness. <I>--Alix Wilber</I> 1069670 1999 Run Catch Kiss: A Gratifying Novel total:104|5:5|4:28|3:40|2:21|1:10| 104 309 136 17 2 0 false false Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 23 18:31:52 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 11:18:32 -0800 2008 once more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Fri Sep 19 03:34:54 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 04:11:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Oct 19 19:38:58 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 19:40:31 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu Aug 21 20:03:41 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 09:05:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Apr 15 10:00:11 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 09:49:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 17:00:36 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 05:40:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Jan 22 13:28:54 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 13:30:15 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Thu Aug 30 09:29:03 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 09:29:03 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Feb 07 17:07:49 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 17:09:47 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon Sep 10 15:43:57 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 15:45:01 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Fri Aug 31 08:13:50 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 08:14:49 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Apr 20 19:00:07 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 20 19:00:46 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 07:42:57 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 20:20:59 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Sep 19 08:33:35 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 08:34:03 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 08:43:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 08:43:52 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sat Jan 03 07:53:01 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 29 11:31:49 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 04 04:26:25 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 04:26:35 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Nov 03 12:55:33 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 12:55:33 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Oct 27 14:44:08 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 14:44:08 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Oct 05 10:43:29 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 10:43:29 -0700 2009