Laura Meets Jeffrey

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“The difference between writing and literature is agreeable style and irony. This book has both
.
”
—
NORMAN MAILER

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LAURA MEE
T
S JEFFREY
at an upscale New York City brothel in 1980 and it's love at first orgasm. And so begins this shameless, hilarious erotic cyclone.

At dinner parties sh
e
'
s a witty artist and lingerie model... and a famous film director's ex lover.
Jeffrey is her new media wizard boyfrien
d—
he worked for John & Yoko and Apple Records and created
PURITAN
, the world's most literary
and
largest-selling explicit sex magazine. On weekends he boxes with Ryan O'Neal and José Torres.

In the demimonde of call girls, porn stars, coke dealers, BDSM, sex clubs, orgies, Timothy Leary, Jerzy Kosinski, Al Goldstein and a horny White House speechwriter or two, Laura and Jeffrey transform into unquenchable libidomaniacs.

Norman Mailer considered his interview with Michelson and Bradley, “Ethics and Pornography” (excerpted in this boo
k
) one of the best of the more than 6
0
0 he gave in his lifetime. Mailer bequeathed the book's foreword and Legs McNeil contributed the introduction. Both helped edit this documentary of the excesses and dangers of the wild era just before the door slammed shut on sexual liberation's primetime.

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“Undeniably brilliant
.
”
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LEGS McNEIL

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“Swimming in audacity
.
”
—
DWAYNE RAYMOND

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“It
'
s a side of life most people don
'
t even
know exists. I didn
'
t
.
”
—
NORRIS CHURCH MAILER

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Available in print, audio and digital

LauraMeetsJeffrey.com

JEFFREY MICHELSON
and
LAURA BRADLEY

Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania

2012

Uncorrected proof | Not for sale | Private distribution only | Please do not quote without prior publisher approval | For information contact Meryl Moss at 203-226-0199.

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Copyright © 2012 by Jeffrey Michelson

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Michelson, Jeffrey.
Laura Meets Jeffrey : both sides of an erotic memoir / by Jeffrey Michelson and Laura Bradley — 1st ed

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To Joanna and Andrea

The last prejudice man will overcome is our prejudice toward beauty.
—
Malcolm Braly

A note to the memoir police

Some names and places are changed to protect both the innocent and the guilty. Otherwise only minor liberties have been taken.

Norman Mailer wrote his foreword after he read my first draft. A few weeks before he died in November of 2007, he suggested that when I was finished I give the book to Laura, whom he knew and loved, to get her side of the story.

She agreed.

Three years later when my part was done, Laura read my manuscript and relayed her version to Legs McNeil in a series of interviews.

Mailer's commentary on my boxing matches with Ryan O'Neal was first published in
Esquire
magazine in 1993. The interviews that Laura and I did with Mailer and Timothy Leary first appeared in
Puritan
magazine in 1981 and 1982.