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Imported Comedy
Playwright Alan Bennett set his sights on fiction in his new comedic collection, Smut. British humor, especially literary humor is often lost on American audiences. One need look no farther than to the...
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Why I Write Smut: A Manifesto
1. Because I’ve devoted perhaps eighty percent of my adult waking hours to thinking about sex, and it seems dishonest to pretend otherwise in my work.2. Because human beings are never more alive to...
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Steve Almond’s Writs of Passion is “the best Valentine’s gift money can buy,” at least according to About.com (and us!).About.com guide Corey Silverberg interviewed Almond about pleasure, emotional...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
LAist takes readers inside Los Angeles’s iconic The Last Bookstore, a “sprawling temple” of books, and talks with owner Josh Spencer.A Hong Kong bookstore, one that hasn’t been closed by mainland...
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Libraries Are the Real Punk Rock
I became a patriot because I was a horny, queer teenager who loved reading smut. I didn’t know it at the time, but my adolescent obsession with dirty stories would lead me to a lifelong devotion of...
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