10 Celebrities Whose Names Are Not Used As Sexual Euphemisms in Nicholson Baker's New Novel HOUSE OF HOLES

Unlike Malcolm Gladwell...

Wilt Chamberlain
Mata Hari
Casanova
Mae West
Pope Pius
Jessica Alba
Justin Timberlake
Bette Midler
Jim Morrison
Scheherazade

(Also, I would give you context re. Gladwell, but there really isn't any, except to say that there is definitely a TIPPING POINT joke about 2 pages before, so I win. And apparently when you write an entire book of graphic sex scenes, at the rate of about 1.5 per page, you run out of euphemisms faster.)

(Somewhat related, whoever wrote the press release for this book -- Alexis and Margaret at Simon and Schuster? -- should get some kind of reward. I'm going to keep this press release forever.)