Edmund White chooses his best works of gay fiction, including titles by Jean Genet, Christopher Isherwood, Alan Hollinghurst and E M Forster. Finally, to sex and sexuality in the animal kingdom as a whole: Tim Birkhead talks about sperm, how testes size among primates correlates very closely...
— we were able to fit all of our fiction onto one wall, filled with bookcases. Let me tell you, there is nothing more goofy than 2 Lit majors arguing over how to shelve books. If you were a fly on our wall, you’d have heard questions like: Honey, should I put the Asian lit...
The Curious Addiction of Books Reading Fiction Makes You a Better Person - More Understanding, Less Fatuous and Nicer"ONE. TWO." The sound man looked at us over the microphone with amused contempt. Book readers. Listening to stories, read by performers who had no idea that you had to yell...
Here Mitch holds nothing back about Amy's addiction to drugs and alcohol, mixing the painful with the poignant as he describes the realities of her dependencies and the toll they took on the family and friends who refused to give up on her. Revealing the tru...
Juliet Escoria Isn’t Afraid of the DarkTalking with the author about her new story collection, addiction, and being honest about human nature. ByEmily Gould booksJune 28, 2024 Read Every Single Smut Book We Featured This WeekThe 81 smut books we’ve written about this week, featuring monste...
Blues-rock guitarist, ex-Pentecostal, ex-Jesus besotted singer, late 50s, death-obsessed, frustrated and blocked songwriter, fighting to hold it together for her band, finances, creative control and integrity, has struggled with alcohol addiction in the past but is mostly clean and sober, burns...
Project Hail Mary is a “hard science-fiction” story, set in the present day, about a last-ditch effort to save humanity. I don’t want to say much else for fear of giving away parts of the plot that are much better discovered. Discovery is a big theme of this book. You, the re...
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In House Hawthorn, Madeleine the alchemist has had her addiction to angel essence savagely broken. Struggling to live on, she is forced on a perilous diplomatic mission to the underwater dragon kingdom—and finds herself in the midst of intrigues that have already caused one previous emissary...
when they’re force-fed a diet of “relationship” novels. In an essay called “The Pornography of Genre, or the Genre of Pornography”, which isn’t about pornography at all (“that was just put in to make it a catchy title”), Gaiman discusses what makes something genre fiction: ...