Strawberry Saroyan
Strawberry Saroyan is the author of Girl Walks into a Bar: A Memoir (Random House). Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Elle, and others.
Two days before leaving for New York to shoot his first movie, Johnny was sitting in a dark bar in L.A. at 1 a.m. asking five friends, who ranged from acquaintances to one woman with whom he’d had a brief fling, if they’d ever had a purely sexual relationship.