On The. Bookshelf
aspiring actress just graduated from
room in a porno shop. "Other girls
Brown University and back home in
would be scared to do this," she tells
Brooklyn.
herself. "But not Ariel Steier. Ariel
She takes a temp job at a large
Steiner can [make love] in a porno
corporation and teaches at a Hebrew
booth and come out feeling liberat-
school to support herself. During
ed, not gross.
lunch hours, she auditions for "fat
But Steiner lies to herself. In mid-
girl parts"; Steiner hasn't lost "the
act, she decides, "I didn't want to be
freshman 15."
this miserable. I wanted to love it. I
Her brashness lands her a part in
was [making love] without caring,
an Off-Off Broadway play to which
just like a guy. Hadn't I won?
she contributes vignettes based on
Wasn't this the sex columnist's
her dating experiences. Eureka! She
dream?"
discovers she
Clearly not.
has a talent
Despite the
with words,
breezy style and
•A GRATIFYING NOVEL
submits a story
numerous
— a literal
laughs, there's an
blow by blow
underlying sad-
account of the
ness here. If
frustrations
there's a moral to
(sexual and oth-
this tale, it's that
erwise) of dat-
missing the sexu-
ing in New
al revolution
York- — to a
may not be so
weekly paper
bad after all.
and is offered a
Run Catch Kiss
column.
has a lot of
Her frank
graphic language
and frankly
and action, so its
raunchy revela-
not for every-
tions win her a
body. But beyond
certain amount
that, this is an
of notoriety.
intriguing look at
But the supply
being single at
of stories just
the end of the
can't keep up
millennium.
with the
On the
demand of a
brink of the
Amy Sohn: "I guess I feel
weekly dead-
21st century,
the way I write about sex
line. So she
Sohn, also a
embellishes cer- is so humorous that to call
Brown
it graphic misses the
tain encoun-
University
humorous side.
ters, makes
araduate, con-
others up and
siders herself
gets into a real
extraordinarily
moral bind about what to write
lucky. "My parents never once in the
about Mr. Right when she thinks
time I was writing the [Press] col-
she's met him.
umn made me feel as though I
Sohn seems to have enjoyed writ-
should stop. They never overtly
ing this book as much as I enjoyed
made me feel guilty about it," she
reading it — taking the opportunity
says. And they're happy about her
to poke fun at the entertainment
career path, as well as the fact that
business, the press and dating,
she's currently involved in a long-
among other institutions.
term relationship.
(Ironically, Steiner's parents are treat-
Sohn, however, is concerned
ed sympathetically and with dignity.)
about the complex issue of intermar-
But what raises Run Catch Kiss
riage — her current boyfriend is not
above the - level of self-indulgence is
Jewish. "My problems with intermar-
its presumably intended honesty.
riage never came down to me from
It isn't easy being a liberated
my parent's. My parents never raised
modern woman when at heart you're
me to feel as though they would be
an old-fashioned girl. One of
heartbroken or brutally upset if I
Steiner's beaus takes her to a private . married outside the faith," she says.
"That's something that came more
from within, my own sense of oblig-
Curt Schleier is a New Jersey-based
ation to. my people." fl
/+ eelance writer
"
VICKI LEWIS
NANA VISITOR
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