Having picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Richard – and having thwarted a blackmail bid aimed at getting Jonathan to take a dive – the Edition team gear up for a tripleheader boxing challenge against their GQ rivals. But with the bouts only hours away, the women in their lives offer some compelling reasons [...]

Concerned over the sudden disappearance of the two lesbians who have been buying his sperm, Ray enlists Jonathan to help him track the couple down. After breaking into their apartment, Jonathan learns the pair has flown the coop–but not without leaving behind a clue that both shocks and intrigues Ray. Meanwhile, George ignores Jonathan’s warnings [...]

Jonathan is enlisted to retrieve a sex tape that a female escort is using to extort money from a married New Jersey man. With Ray and George in tow, Jonathan ends up in a motel room with the escort, who attempts to blackmail him as well. Can the very stoned Ray and George save Jonathan’s [...]

A smitten Russian parolee contracts Jonathan to track down a chanteuse known as “the Lonely White Dove.” After a vodka-fueled reconnaissance mission at the Brighton Beach restaurant where she works, Jonathan persuades Suzanne–and Ray and Leah–to join him there for dinner the next night, failing to reveal his true purpose. Meanwhile, George decides to get [...]

Jonathan falls for his latest client, the mother of a boy whose skateboard was stolen by neighborhood bully. Meanwhile, Ray agrees to help a lesbian couple start a new family, to wife Leah’s chagrin; and George has a nostalgic “armpit crush” on a young publicist he hopes to woo at the opening of a new [...]

At a New York film-society party, George introduces Jonathan to filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, a fan of Jonathan’s first book, who is interested in having him rewrite a screenplay. Later, after leaving his personalized script in a therapistʼs office during an ill-advised late-night tryst with a very young party girl, Jonathan convinces Ray to pose as [...]

During an unsuccessful attempt to win back Suzanne, Jonathan gets a phone call and a new case: a woman named Jennifer wants him to tail her boyfriend Gary to see if he’s been unfaithful. After learning that he and Jennifer share a common pastime, Jonathan heads out in search of her boyfriend–with uncomfortable results. Meanwhile, [...]

After his girlfriend Suzanne moves out because of his failure to stop drinking and smoking pot, between-books novelist Jonathan Ames peruses his favorite Raymond Chandler novel, “Farewell, My Lovely,” and is inspired to place an ad on Craigslist offering his services as an unlicensed private investigator. Within hours he gets his first case, involving a [...]