Fat and Other Stories is the first compilation in print of the short, auto-fictional writings of Ishmael Houston-Jones.
Collected over thirty years these stories tour the grunge of an East Village fire escape where skater boys debate the name of their band; the brown walls of a west side sex club in Chelsea that offer little privacy; and the basement of the all male strip club in a Times Square that has now vanished. New York is the final bedfellow in this sometimes frank, sometimes dreamlike collection. Houston-Jones choreographs the ghosts of this self-erasing city of lovers and strangers.