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O H ,   T H E   T I M E S   W E   H A D . BY PAUL TOUGH AND STEPHEN SHERRILL - - - - The following is a list of titles of memoirs about writers and reporters at The New York Times. - - - - To Sleep With Angier: Under the Covers with Natalie Angier Shortz, Stop! -- Ten Years of Abuse at the Hands of Will Shortz, Crossword Puzzle Editor of the New York Times Sex, Lyall, and Videotape: Creating Amateur Erotica with Sarah Lyall Yellin' and Cryin' and Makin' Up When It's All Over: My Tumultuous Affair with Emily Yellin Goodnough for Me: How I Gave Up Looking for Ms. Right and Found Ms. Abby Goodnough Pierre! Pierre! -- A Life of Longing, Longing with Garry Pierre-Pierre Love Thy Niebuhr: Hot Nights with Gustav Niebuhr I Feel Purdy: My First Time with Todd Purdham Alex What I Sees! Getting Down to Business with Alex Kuczynski Sheer Pandemona: My Bizarre Marriage to Anenoma Hartocollis Never Say Niebuhr Again: Finding the Strength to Leave Gustav Niebuhr Margo, Margoing, Margone: Loving and Losing Margo Jefferson I Wuv Wu: Life with Sheryl Wu Dunn Frank and Beans: The Unquenchable Desire and Chronic Digestive Problems of Frank Rich Raines, Raines, Go Away: On Being Stalked by Howell Raines Bang the Drummond Slowly: Teaching B. Drummond Ayres Jr. How to Love Somini Sengupta, So Little Time: My Love Affair with Somini Sengupta, and How it Was Cut Tragically Short Once More, With Gustav: My Passionate Reunion with Gustav Niebuhr   OTHER McSWEENEY'S STORIES: - - - - Jonathan Lethem: The McSweeney's Interview -- In Its Entirety Thus Far My Week at Sea: A True Story By Neal Pollack Fights I've Recently Seen By John Warner History's Great Persons Reconsidered: Four New Ones By Tim Carvell I Am a Concerned Chilled Orange-Juice Customer By Tim Rogers

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