“Jayson pulled at the top half of his mother’s Pucci knockoff bathing suit. Up until an hour ago it’d been a one-piece, but he’d had to cut it into two pieces in order to transform it into the ‘revealing string bikini’ called for in the script he wrote earlier that afternoon.”
— Candy Everybody Wants, by Josh Kilmer-Purcell (Harper Perennial; $13.95; available May 13)