In the bestselling tradition of DRINING, SMOKING AND SCREWING: GREAT WRITERS ON GREAT TIMES, comes this hip collection of classical and contemporary writers on tattoos.

Previously considered the domain of bikers and a rite of passage in the services, tattoos have crawled from society's fringes and onto the ankles of starlets and the biceps of bankers. In this volume, stories from writers including Sylvia Plath and Ray Bradbury capture the tattoo experience.