Jordan asked:
"I wonder how much his Adios Scheherezade (which has a true
title of Adios, Motherf*cker) is based on his own experience.
It's an introspective book about a guy who writes formulaic
porn books."
I saw Westlake interviewed (by Michael Dirda) at the
Smithsonian several years ago. He said it was indeed based on
his real experience with
"euphemism books," as he called them (since, at the time he
was writing them in the early '60s, you couldn't come right
out and say what you meant).
Mark
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