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...example, in “Heimish Knows All,” Auslander follows in the steps of Roth’s Portnoy??s Complaint and addresses the universal male predicament of puberty. Heimish is a rather priggish dog who reproaches his masturbating master, the newly-pubescent Shlomo. Heimish likens Shlomo’s sexual self-gratification to the horrors of the Holocaust: Shlomo “mopped the murdered Jewish souls off his hands with a couple of tissues, flushed them down the toilet and hid the Jergens behind the medicine rack,” Auslander writes...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Best Thing Since Gefilte Fish? | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...think it is an homage to Portnoy??s Complaint, where he masturbated into a piece of liver...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions For Carol J. Adams | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...Pulitzer prize winning author may have topped the bravura performance of Columbus, at least in terms of notoriety, with 1969’s Portnoy??s Complaint. The book became a number-one best-seller, shocking many with its frankness about male sexuality...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Harvard To Recognize Academics, Artists, Others with Honorary Degrees | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...copies of novels I’ve grown up with and come back to. Kay Thompson’s Portnoy??s Complaint. Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckenridge. The Annotated Lolita...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, | Title: Death of the Reader | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

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