15+ hour, 57+ min ago  (176+ words) City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and "70s by Edmund White EXCERPT FROM A CONVERSATION WITH BARRY WALTERS Christian Barter: An important theme you hit on writing about Madonna"s music is the idea of an artist presenting…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (377+ words) Brought to you by'Book Marks, Lit Hub's home for book reviews. 6 Rave Read an excerpt from'Coyoteland'here "Peers deeply into the confounding asymmetries of American life " Hua's novel winds suspensefully from suburban complacency to its fiery consummation. Her style is breezy,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (325+ words) The Hite Report, published in 1976, was written by Shere Hite, Playboy model turned DIY sex researcher. Though it has sold upwards of 50 million copies, the book has now been largely forgotten. So, for sex to be more pleasurable required assertiveness…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (357+ words) Sara Petersen: What initially pulled you into the trad-o-sphere? I'd love to hear about your entry point, particularly as someone without kids. I know on a fundamental level that social media is a mass form of performative rot, and yet…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (571+ words) When I spoke to Ann Rower on the phone in order to write this introduction, she in New York and I in Berkeley, I asked her why cemeteries always got us so hot. In the book, the narrator proposes that…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (377+ words) And it's almost certainly a total lie'and not a white one. Revisionism infuses the past with today's fashionable ideology. How would such a myth proliferate? Blame Elizabeth Arden. Not Elizabeth Arden the person'otherwise known as Florence Graham, pioneer of American…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (258+ words) Find Him! , Elaine Kraf "s third novel, was first published in 1977 by the experimental author-run Fiction Collective. The book is dedicated to you. And throughout it, you, the reader, will be addressed directly, questioned, sometimes taunted by the novel"s…...

11+ mon, 4+ day ago  (67+ words) When a woman had an abortion'she was taking a step to assert her human rights and dignity, and that was a radical, and radicalizing, moment. Las Libres was claiming abortion as necessary, as a force for good, as something that…...

11+ mon, 5+ day ago  (816+ words) In 1943, M. F. K. Fisher published The Gastronomical Me, an interwar food memoir chronicling her move from the US to Dijon, by way of Strasbourg, Lausanne, Marseille, Guadalajara. At the time, food writing was a genre that neatly sat as a "women's domain…...

11+ mon, 5+ day ago  (201+ words) But the next episode shows Carrie fretting over whether her accidentally farting in front of her boyfriend has made him lose all desire for her. I have trouble believing that any woman who has reached the age of thirty'one whose…...