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Alice Denham's lusty memoir is a juicy tell-all about a time when male writers were gods and an aspiring and gorgeous female novelist tries to win respect-and sometimes more. Caught between the sheets are James Dean, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Philip Roth, and William Gaddis. The steam rises page by page as Denham-the only Playboy Playmate to have her fiction published in the same issue as her centerfold-chases her dream of writing as a young, oversexed beauty in the literary swirl of 1950s Greenwich Village, New York City.

Alice Denham is the author of three novels and has written articles for Cosmopolitan, The Nation, New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, The Village Voice, and The Washingtonian.