That’s another fine mess you got me into, Stanley! But it was worth it. Because: Male Impersonators, Metrosexy and Anti Gay. ‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.’ - Oscar Wilde
Archive for the ‘Reading’ Category
Letter From An Alien: Nothing But Trouble
Posted: March 8, 2012 in Blogging, Freedom of Speech, Letters From An Alien, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Metrosexy, Reading, WritingTags: Anti Gay, laurel and Hardy, Letters From An Alien, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Metrosexy. Oscar Wilde
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Best Sex Writing 2012: A Review
Posted: February 13, 2012 in Desire, Feminism, Reading, WritingTags: Best Sex Writing, feminism, Rachel Kramer Bussel, review, sex positive, Susie Brite
Being lectured by Susie Bright about sex is not my idea of fun. So maybe choosing to read a book, about sex, introduced and curated by the American sex positive ‘sexpert’ and activist was a mistake. But non, je ne regrette rien, and this is why. The collection of 24 essays, with forewords by Susie [...]
Letters From An Alien -Facts and Fictions
Posted: October 1, 2011 in Letters From An Alien, Reading, Uncategorized, WritingTags: fiction, Janet Malcolm, Non-fiction, Scribbling on Foucault's walls
‘In a work of nonfiction we almost never know the truth of what happened. The ideal of unmediated reporting is regularly achieved only in fiction, where the writer faithfully reports on what is going on in his imagination. When James reports in “The Golden Bowl” that the Prince and Charlotte are sleeping together, we have [...]
The Tiger Is In The Library
Posted: September 25, 2011 in Blogging, Reading, Susan Sontag, WritingTags: James Maker, Susan Sontag
I am delighted to find that the marvellous James Maker has been shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize with his searingly honest and sparklingly funny memoir, AutofellatioAnd I am equally pleased his achievement has been picked up by the press. None other than our favourite Lesbianic Literary Lush (I mean that in a good [...]
