The first story was called: A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis, and that was in Esquire Magazine and it turned out to be the opening chapter of Portnoy's Complaint. I then wrote a... a story which continued that first one called: Whacking Off, and it appeared in of all places, the Partisan Review, which was the... the Mecca of modernism here in America, and that got a tremendous response with people. I mean, Partisan Review has a very small audience but that small audience is located in New York. And it dawned on me that I should keep going. And so I wrote chapter after chapter of this book about a patient in analysis, who was Portnoy, and I'd never done anything like this before or after. I... as I finished a section of the book I gave it out to a magazine, the magazine in question was called The New American Review and the editor was one of my close friends, a guy called Ted Solotaroff, he and I had been in graduate school together. And as soon as I wrote it, Ted published it, and the book began… these stories began to get a huge following, and so… and the stories eventually became the whole book which was Portnoy's Complaint, and Portnoy's Complaint was published in February, I think, 1969, I was 36, and it was a sensation. Nothing like that had ever happened… has ever happened to me since, and... nothing remotely like that, and certainly nothing... nothing had happened... like that before. And I'd say that there are a very few writers who've had such an experience in America in my time.