A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie is a riotously funny, razor-sharp tale about wanting it allHe was a charismatic porn star who sold his dirty underwear. I was an upper-middle-class housewife from BronxvilleMimi Smithers, bored aesthete manque, lives with her husband Boyce in the New York suburbs, where dreams of dazzling social success elude her. Life takes a quite unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a stunningly handsome porn star.

Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, ‘verbal abuse audiotapes’), and her real adventures begin.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2026
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 272
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0241795095
ISBN 13: 9780241795095