The Infinite Monkey Theorem says: Given enough time, a hypothetical monkey—typing at random—will almost surely produce all of Shakespeare’s plays.
Wikipedia says: The probability of a monkey exactly typing a complete work such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time even a hundred thousand orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe is extremely low, but not actually zero.
Not. Actually. Zero.
I haven’t had a drink in over thirty years. Longshots are what this particular monkey does best. Welcome to my monkey brain.
Sober caregiver. Funny. Lucid. Heartwrenching ™
Jodi Sh. Doff is a New York-based writer. Her work frequently includes autobiographical elements of drug-use, alcoholism.
Chicago Now declared her stories about “the underworld of drugs, sex and violence in the 80s” to be “heartbreaking” and the New York Times Book Review compared her prose to that of Henry Miller.
Her stories have appeared in O, the Oprah Magazine; drafthorse literary journal, The Fix, xoJane, Penthouse, Playgirl, Cosmopolitan, and Bust Magazine, and have been anthologized alongside Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates in the anthology Bearing Life–Women’s Writings On Childlessness. Other anthologies include Best American Erotica; The Bust Guide To A New Girl Order; the awkwardly titled Hos, Hookers, Callgirls & Rentboys and its equally awkwardly titled sequel, Johns, Marks, Tricks & Chickenhawks.
She was a Tin House Summer 2016 Workshop participant; made regular appearances as part of the Sex Worker Literati Reading Series; appeared back on stage, albeit fully-clothed, in New York’s first Sex Worker Cabaret at the infamous Slipper Room; been a featured guest on Sex and Politics (Brooklyn College radio); the KGB Radio Hour with Ratso Sloman and Mark Jacobson; In Bed with Susie Bright (audible.com); Minx on Pseudo.com, and was profiled–as alter-ego Scarlett Fever–by author Lily Burana in her book, Strip City.
She has studied with Spalding Gray, Virginia Woolf scholar Louise DeSalvo, playwright Gretchen Cryer, author and Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott. Jodi has been a mentor with the PEN America Prison Writing Program, and was awarded an M.F.A in Creative Writing from Lesley University where she advised a graduate seminar in the art of memoir.
