Remittance Girl Gone Dark: #SOPABLACKOUT #SOPA 24 HRS EST
As the venerable Edward R. Murrow would have said: “Good night, and good luck”.
It’s All About Mickey Mouse: SOPA and the reality of cultural production
Someone asked me to explain why I’m blacking out on January 18th. I’d like to be upfront about this: it is not simply the SOPA bill that I oppose. It is the entire way in which the concept of intellectual property has evolved. The US Constitution was one of the few national documents to enshrine […]
Body Art/Work/Action #temptingfailure
When I was six, I was taken to the opening of an art exhibit at a gallery. This is how I was taught how to experience art: you walk into the space, grab a glass of wine, stand in front of pictures, nod, leave. Very often, the work hanging on the wall has no intrinsic […]
Dark on the 18th
This is just a little note to let you know that my site will be participating in the 8hr blackout in support of the anti-SOPA movement. I passionately support the intellectual property rights of creative artists. But I do not support the agendas that lurk behind the current SOPA bill. I thank you in advance […]
My First (and perhaps last) ERWA Blog post
So, today was the first of my monthy ERWA Blog posts. It may very well be my last when my co-bloggers are confronted with 2000 words of density. We’ll see. Anyway, I’ve been blogging a lot lately about the lack of well-written or arousing sex scenes in literary fiction, and musing over the possible reasons […]
Show Me, Don’t Tell Me – Unless it’s Sex.
There were some really great comments on my last post about the literary world and its aversion to including erotic sex scenes in literary fiction or eliciting arousal in readers. Laughingly, and perhaps a little brutally, I said that it might have something to do with individual authors and their own feelings of sexual inadequacy. […]
Why Good Writers Write Bad Sex: An Exploration of Literary Prudery
Last year, Arifa Akbar wrote an interesting article in The Independent: Bad sex please, we’re British: Can fictive sex ever have artistic merit? I’ll be honest, I’ve been ruminating over this piece for about a year. First, let me give you some quotes from prize-winning writers and critics as to why they purposefully write unarousing […]
Possible opening lines for Literary Erotica Novels
These days, I wax, but only out of nostalgia. _______ Lydia considered fate had been inexplicably kind to her. She’d survived the 90’s with nothing more than a mild case of chlamydia. _______ Gilles was French. But he bathed with surprising regularity. _______ On her return from the launderette, Jackie discovered strange missives scrawled on […]
Wish You Were Here
from: missticy35@gmail.com to: jmartin_jones@gmail.com date: Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:13 AM subject: Probably nothing It started on my back. A vaguely tender spot that I absently rubbed at over the day. By evening it had become more painful. I undressed for my evening shower and noticed the upper left back was spotted with blood. […]
The Switch
From urbane and measured, I can smell the turn instantly. A word, a tightness of sinew, the everyday you is gone in a blink of an eye. In its place is the creature who hungers for me. Tensed and rigid, swollen and alive with desire. The flipped switch twitch of the corner of your mouth, […]