You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed.

Or you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read.

Hi, this is Michael Silverbladden.

Welcome this afternoon to Bookworm.

Today my guest is Robert Plunkett, the author most recently of Love Junkie, published by Harper Collins.

He's the author as well of My Search for Warren Harding.

You know, this book, which is about a woman of middle years, who falls in

love with a hero of gay pornographic movies, seems to be about the kind of person who is

addicted to being unrequited.

She goes through an affection for a gay, sometime arts administrator,

before she falls in love with her pornographic hero.

And so it would seem that her fondness is for dissatisfaction.

What would you think?

I would certainly agree with you.

I think that that's one of the things that I had in mind when I was writing the book

because I kept seeing it happened to so many of my friends.

They always ended up falling in love with someone who was not going to love them back,

and they were only happy in a situation like that.

I wondered, since this book takes place in the kind of sort of the end of the club years

and the Fire Island years in the gay scene, are these characters any more likely to fall in love with one another than one is to fall in love with your heroine Mimi?

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