Joanna Walsh on Sex Writing, Freud, and (the) Marx (Brothers)
British writer Joanna Walsh’s work pulls you in unexpected directions. Readers in the United States can now get a sense of her literary range with the recent publication of two books. Hotel, released...
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Five Books Making News This Week: Soldiers, Mathematicians, and Pornographers
Ethan Canin is back, with a book that raises the bar for novelists. Chris Offutt’s memoir reveals his father’s savage side. Christopher Isherwood inspires Darryl Pinckney’s second novel. A long-time...
View ArticleWhen Chris Offutt Lost His Virginity at a ComicCon
My father’s early science fiction stories placed him in the new wave of young writers changing the field by exploring social concerns such as sexuality, psychology, corporate mentality, politics, and...
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The Life and Times of a True American Moral Hysteric
At an early age, Anthony Comstock felt he was destined for glory. As a child in New Canaan, Connecticut, he was enchanted when his mother read him stories from the Bible about saintly heroes battling...
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I saw people mentioning it in the personals online, but I didn’t know anything about it. I didn’t know places like that existed. In the Missed Connections, there were ads that made clear that men were...
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Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature
The following is part IV of the longer essay “Silence is Broken,” from Rebecca Solnit’s new essay collection, The Mother of All Questions. “I want to write a novel about silence. The things people...
View ArticleThe Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification
“[I]t is always a question of how complicated we can allow people to be without feeling the need to punish them for it.” –Adam Phillips, “How Much Does Monogamy Tell Us?” The New York Times, October...
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Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security
If I am writing about security in libraries, something is very wrong. I would much rather write about the importance of funding for teen services, why funding based on program attendance decreases the...
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Joanna Walsh on Sex Writing, Freud, and (the) Marx (Brothers)
British writer Joanna Walsh’s work pulls you in unexpected directions. Readers in the United States can now get a sense of her literary range with the recent publication of two books. Hotel, released...
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Five Books Making News This Week: Soldiers, Mathematicians, and Pornographers
Ethan Canin is back, with a book that raises the bar for novelists. Chris Offutt’s memoir reveals his father’s savage side. Christopher Isherwood inspires Darryl Pinckney’s second novel. A long-time...
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When Chris Offutt Lost His Virginity at a ComicCon
My father’s early science fiction stories placed him in the new wave of young writers changing the field by exploring social concerns such as sexuality, psychology, corporate mentality, politics, and...
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The Life and Times of a True American Moral Hysteric
At an early age, Anthony Comstock felt he was destined for glory. As a child in New Canaan, Connecticut, he was enchanted when his mother read him stories from the Bible about saintly heroes battling...
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Arcade
I saw people mentioning it in the personals online, but I didn’t know anything about it. I didn’t know places like that existed. In the Missed Connections, there were ads that made clear that men were...
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Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature
The following is part IV of the longer essay “Silence is Broken,” from Rebecca Solnit’s new essay collection, The Mother of All Questions. “I want to write a novel about silence. The things people...
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The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification
“[I]t is always a question of how complicated we can allow people to be without feeling the need to punish them for it.” –Adam Phillips, “How Much Does Monogamy Tell Us?” The New York Times, October...
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Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security
If I am writing about security in libraries, something is very wrong. I would much rather write about the importance of funding for teen services, why funding based on program attendance decreases the...
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Men of a Certain Age: On Sex, Privacy, and Pornography
An older pornographer calls me after a decade of silence. It is midnight in Berlin, summertime. When I see his number on the display, I think there can only be one reason he’s calling. He’s dying. I...
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The Intersectionality Wars: Does the Term Even Mean Anything Anymore?
At the 2014 American Studies Association (ASA) conference, a panel entitled “Kill This Keyword” asked: “Can critical leverage, incisive edge, be returned to commonplace terms, or to the ideas to which...
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Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo
The idea that we each have a hidden interior that holds the truth of our being is one of the most enduring ideas in Western culture, writes the Swedish author and historian of ideas Carl-Michael...
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What Does “NSFW” Mean in the Age of Social Media?
Awash with content available at scales too massive for human cognition to fathom, social media revolves around the constant quest of capturing and diverting attention; tracking it through the clicks,...
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