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CCLaP Fridays: Venice Noir, edited by Maxim Jakubowski
The new Akashic anthology Venice Noir, edited by Maxim Jakubowski has something for everyone, a delicious sampling of tastes, styles, and stories.
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CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: Swastika Night (1937) by Katharine Burdekin
This week’s installment of my essay series, On Being Human, examines the feminist science fiction novel Swastika Night, an alternate history predating Orwell’s 1984 that explores the darker regions of...
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Monday with the Supremes: Part VI: The Abortion Debate (with Jokes)
A limited-run series where I review three books about the Supreme Court of the United States, exploring its historical and ideological conflicts, and the transformations it wrought upon law and...
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An essay on a Jack Gilbert poem @ thethepoetryblog
My essay on a Jack Gilbert poem is over on thethepoetryblog. Click the link to go to the essay.
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CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Today in CCLaP’s “On Being Human,” I look at humanity as explained through various famous pieces of pop culture: It’s Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s infamous “Venus in Furs,” the 1870 book that inspired...
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Translation Tuesdays: Firefly, by Severo Sarduy
A series dedicated to literature in translation whether classic or contemporary. Originally published in 1990 as Cocuyo Translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried Archipelago Books (Available March...
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Reviews in Brief: Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture, by...
Because I read a many books here at the Driftless Area Review, I can’t hope to give them all a thorough long-form review. Reviews in Brief are short-form reviews that offer a concentrated dose of...
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Mondays with the Supremes: Part VII: The Ideological Litmus Test
A limited-run series where I review three books about the Supreme Court of the United States, exploring its historical and ideological conflicts, and the transformations it wrought upon law and...
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The NSFW Files: The Satyricon by Petronius
Today in CCLaP’s essay series on subversive erotic classics, “The NSFW Files,” I look at Petronius’s first-century AD ribald romp through the Roman Empire, “The Satyricon.”
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NSFW Files: Gynecocracy, by Viscount Ladywood
This week at CCLaP, I investigate Gynecocracy, by Viscount Ladywood for the NSFW Files. In the novel, a wayward aristocratic man gets a stern lesson in forced feminization and the proper wearing of a...
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The NSFW Files: “Our Lady of the Flowers,” by Jean Genet
This week at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, I review Our Lady of the Flowers, by Jean Genet, about a drag queen hanging around with criminals and murderers in pre-World War 2...
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CCLaP Fridays: Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh, by Thomas Glave
Over at CCLaP I review “Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh,” by Thomas Glave, a new anthology of fiction and non-fiction works about prejudice, sexuality, and diaspora.
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CCLaP Fridays: Pervert, by Mr. If
This week at CCLaP I review “Pervert,” by Mr. If, a confrontational erotic memoir of sorts that hocks a gobbet of spit at everything proper and polite in the United Kingdom.
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Commonplace Book: The Art of Seduction and the Joy of Cooking from Titus...
The Art of SeductionAct II, Scene I CHIRONAaron, a thousand deathsWould I propose to achieve her whom I love. AARONTo achieve her! How? DEMETRIUSWhy makest thou it so strange?She is a woman, there may...
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Horizontal Collaboration: The Erotic World of Paris, 1920–1946, by Mel Gordon...
Horizontal Collaboration, by Mel Gordon is “an illuminating linguistic, cartographic, and historical exploration of Parisian lusts.”
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CCLaP Fridays: Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon
This week I review Norman Mailer’s selected letters, giving a new perspective on an iconic and controversial author.
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More NSFW Files: Tom House: Tom of Finland in Los Angeles, by Michael Reynolds
I wrote a book on non-fiction essays called The NSFW Files: An Appreciation of the Erotic in Literature and Comics at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography. These posts offer additional...
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More NSFW Files: Sin-a-Rama: Expanded Edition: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the...
I wrote a book on non-fiction essays called The NSFW Files: An Appreciation of the Erotic in Literature and Comics at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography. These posts offer additional...
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Commonplace Book: Inauguration Celebration Spectacular
Compelling passages, notable quotables, bon mots, disjecta, ephemera, and miscellany. Via 26. THE GRANDIOSE OR IMPERTURBABLE CUCKOLD THE GRANDIOSE OR IMPERTURBABLE CUCKOLD is a man who is not affected...
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Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim @ NYJB
Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim represents “a talented new voice in contemporary Nigerian literature.” Advertisements
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