I Just Want My Pants Back

Jason Strider is a twentysomething young man in the city, with an English degree from an Ivy League university, a very small apartment in the West Village, a vapid job as a receptionist at a casting agency—and no particular idea what to do with his life. On most evenings, Jason gets stoned and goes out, sometimes with his party-hearty school chum Tina and sometimes alone in the immemorial male quest to get laid or, if not, get hammered enough to really regret it the next day and be late for work.

Then one night Jason has athletic, appliance-assisted intercourse with a cute girl named Jane—and ends up lending her his Dickies jeans. Many, many e-mails and text messages later, he is unable to reconnect with her and is reduced to the plaint "I just want my pants back." How he does, in a most unexpected way, find those pants, and how maturity and mortality come to enter his slacker's existence, form the matter of this smart, raunchily comic, and finally affecting first novel.

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[iamsammiesam]

this book is really great

[CandaceFord40]

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[jamesthefruit]

what's the song?

[DiamondGirl1286]

Fucking Fantastic! The book kicked ass! Loved it! Funny as all hell, and the kitchen appliance scene was pretty hot.

[oakpointballer]

I just read a review of this book at maxim's website. I might have to go pick it up.

[nvadnai]

i heard the author can eat his weight in penne

[kashcopy]

counting the days until August 7th. what a fan-fucking-tastic book.

[martinimeow]

yay! can't wait to read it. humor is natural for this guy...i'm sure i won't want the story to end.

[tamidoll]

he's a great writer... i especially like his work in the new repulic.

[krass36]

amazing -- makes me miss nyc :(