1980 reprint of 1942 original. With an afterword by John Updike. From Wikipedia: Memoirs of Hecate County is a work of fiction by Edmund Wilson, first published in 1946, but banned in the state of New York until 1959, when it was reissued with minor revisions by the author. The book includes six short stories, three of which had been previously published. The link between the six stories is the narrator, an "upper-middle-class intellectual", describing dysfunctional American society through sexual liaisons and friendships. [The ban] went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948, where the decision was upheld 4–4. From the afterword by John Updike: “Remains a work of exemplary merit, still the most intelligent attempt by an American male to dramatize sexual behavior as a function of, rather than a suspension of, personality.”