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The resorts in the Catskill Mountains are struggling in 1963, but the town of Fleischmanns has a secret that keeps the tourists coming back: A hidden colony of satyrs.

Strikingly good-looking and differing in appearance from humans only because of their short horns and delicate hooves, it is easy for satyrs to pass. In the summer, when New York City ladies take solitary and hopeful walks up the mountain paths, they frequently do. That great-looking guy who gave a New York City college girl the best sex of her life behind the tennis courts and refused to take off his hat? Most likely a satyr.

After her breast cancer diagnosis in 1991, Joyce Wadler, a smart, savvy, forty-something New York writer, fought back with a grounded, roll-with-the-punches outlook. She took charge of her treatments, her options, her life -- and her disease. My Breast is her irreverently witty, fiercely personal story of facing cancer's obstacles and uncertainties with feisty courage.

Five years after beating breast cancer, New York City journalist Joyce Wadler was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. She also learned she was carrying the BR-CA 1 mutation which increases a woman's risk of getting breast and ovarian cancer. "Cured: My Ovarian Cancer Story", first published as a two part cover story in New York Magazine, is her frank, frightening, and darkly funny story. And yes, Joyce Wadler, who went on to be a reporter and columnist at The New York Times, was cured: She was diagnosed with stage 3B ovarian cancer in 1995, treated, and her cancer never returned.

The true story that inspired David Hwang’s play “M Butterfly”, about a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, posted to Peking, who fell in love with a seductive opera singer, named Shi Pei Pu, apparently unaware that Pei Pu was a man. Their liaison “produced” a son, and led them into espionage and finally to gaol in France. Joyce Wadler spent four years researching the story, and finally persuaded Boursicot to break his silence and explain his side of the story.