title: The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
author:  Xaviera Hollander 
description: Xaviera Hollander has been writing a Penthouse column for 30 years. She chronicled her life as a "high-class New York madam" in 1972's The Happy Hooker: My Own Story, which now returns to print. Frankly discussing lesbianism, bondage, voyeurism and run-ins with lawyers and the FBI, Hollander's book was an international bestseller. In her new epilogue, Hollander rather questionably attests that although her stories may not be as shocking or taboo now as they were in 1972, "the business of sex [has] a new relevance" since September 11. Regan Books will also publish Hollander's new memoir, Child No More, in June (a review will run in an upcoming issue). <br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: GODFELLAS, OR, VIC TAKES A ROOM AT THE MAGELLAN
  
  anoriginal short story by RachelCaine
  
  I suppose you might say I died happy.Couple bottles of gin, a hooker who
  looked exactly like Julia Roberts, and one cigarette too many. See, I was
  laying there in the afterglow, lighting up, not paying any attention, when the
  door opened and JimmyCassoli came in with his two ugly cousins and put a
  couple of
  
  .375 hollow points through my forehead.
  
  Didn’t hurt as much as I thought it would – big noise, big flash of light, and
  then it was all over but the crying. That was the hooker crying, ‘causeshe had
  to get the hell out of the room without her best pair of fuck-me shoes.
  JimmyCassoli must have known her or something because he didn’t pop her on the
  way out, or maybe he was just more interested in making sure I wasn’t going to
  get up and follow her.
  
  While they were going through my wallet for the green and grabbing up my
  working gun – I really hated that, I loved that .45 – I realized I wasn’t
  ac