An ex love invites our French hero to a party and the thinking begins. “C’est le bouquet.”
Up To His Neck
Mystery guest Gregoire Bouillier turns turtle necks into laughs
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
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Wham Bam, I Love You Mam
Two sex addicts screw their way past therapy and into romance.
April 5th, 2009 · No Comments
At what point does sexual obsession become sexual addiction? In Francis Levy’s can’t-get-enough novel Erotomania it comes right around page 84 when the story’s compulsive over-extender and the object of his desire start seeing a therapist. Before the clinical appraisal, sex merely dominates the lovers’ time, causing structural damage to their apartment…
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The Illustrated Book Review
March 29th, 2009 · No Comments
We’ve written before about comics as a vehicle for memoir. Now comes Alison Bechdel to show how comics can be applied to memoir criticism. Bechdel’s illustrated review of Jane Vandenburgh’s A Pocket History of Sex In the Twentieth Century: A Memoir in the March 29 New York Times Book Review contains all the…
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Souless Sucker
The past has fangs in Walter
Mosley's latest novel
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Even when we like them, we don’t always admire the characters in Walter Mosley’s fiction. Ben Dibbuk is no exception. A former hard-drinking, skirt-chasing angry young man, Ben has fallen into a rut thanks to a regular job and a 20 year marriage. It’s as if his soul has been…
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Eyes Wide Shut
Do Me takes a lingering look at sex and love.
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve always wondered: If love is blind, why is sex so much better with one’s eyes open? There’s an essay in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love From Tin House that addresses that question in reverse fashion. If the person having sex is blind, is their love more visible?
“You…
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