Bible beaters beware this wild anthology of wonderful and downright wicked writings from some of the truly great writers of world literature, including Henry Miller, Mark Twain, Charles Bukowski, Dorothy Parker, and Vladimir Nabokov, as they get down to the business of sinning. A triumphant collection, unapollogetic and unabashed, celebrating the virtues of those favorite vices, drinking, smoking and screwing. Writing in the introduction, Bob Shacochis, author and libertine in his own right, gets to the heart of the book: "It's futile...to defend smoking, drinking and fucking. Nevertheless, not to defend smokers, drinkers, and fuckers would be a terrible mistake...the world might be simple and clean, but it wouldn't be deliciously, fascinatingly, pathetically human, would it? Nor would it be much fun."