Funny to say because in our research we did find a story that may have been written by Jay some years later (tho if so he used a pseudonym), that did indeed exhibit some of the headlong, take-no-prisoners style and joie de vivre as these entries in his journals (and even some of the same subject matter, for that matter), published in The Madison Review in the Summer of 1998. Altho there is no online archive of that issue, we have posted a copy here for comparison. If you check it out, let us know if you see any stylistic similarity to the journals, or vice versa. Here’s the link…

“Drag” from The Madison Review, Summer 1998

–Eds.