FICTION
Pillow Talk
What were famous lovers really thinking about during their most intimate moments?
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INTERCOURSE
Stories
By Robert Olen Butler
Chronicle. 216 pp. $22.95
Jack, 65, builder, often a Muse. Jane, 58, writer, often amused. In their bed in the house that Jack built.
Jack: What are you reading?
Jane: Intercourse.
Jack: What is that? Is it a novel?
Jane: I can't tell. It's cute: 50 short monologues, in pairs, from various couples while they're having sex. His previous book like this was about severed heads. You know, those alleged seconds between when the head is cut off and the brain dies.
Jack: This must be more of a comedy.
Jane: It has its ups and downs. There's a pair of newlyweds who are interrupted by the sinking of the Titanic. On the other hand, he has the same woman sleeping with Hitler and JFK.
Jack: Wow. Is that true?
