"I was in the Mammouth Book of Future Cops a whie back, with a Raymond Chandler parody set in future San Francisco, and not long ago I was the lone male heterosexual writer in the British anthology 'Va-Va-Voom - Red Hot Lesbian Erotica.' Just me and 32 Lesbian writers. I try to cover all terrorities. Had a piece in 'Minnessota Parent'a while back, though I am not a parent and have never been to Minnessota, (except to change planes). Had one in 'Range'(but am not a cattle grower), and so on. The count is about 1500 pieces since the sixties, so I've had time to get around. I'm probably one of the few writers to have published in both 'Hustler" and 'The New Yorker' I'm often astonishing younger writers with memories of those early days. For example, in December 1978 I made four or five sales (one to 'The New Yorker'for, I think, about $1250), and the money added up to close to $5,000. I was living in an apartment where the rent was $185 per month. Rent for two years! Hard to believe such times ever existed. Today my rent and bills are about ten times what they were then, and just the next month's rent always looms like the sword of Damocles." Larry Tritten (1939 -2011)