Working The Street

Working The StreetWe'll call it something like Working Vice," the voice on the phone commanded soothingly. "You'll make busts with the vice squad.""Why me?" I whimpered. "Why me?""Because you are a four-eyed skinny Jewish intellectual profligate who will be the last person in the world to approve of busting people for those kinds of crimes."How true. As J. P. Donleavy said, "Writing is turning one's worst moments into money."•Making an appoi...