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Posts by: Eric Longfellow

Sharp and Twisty and Complicated: Talking with Melanie Abrams

By Eric Longfellow

August 17th, 2018

Melanie Abrams discusses her debut novel, PLAYING, and a forthcoming novel, MEADOWLARK.

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Tags: bdsm, Bridge to Terabithia, childhood, Flowers in the Attic, Freud, Grove Press, Homecoming, kink, Meadowlark, Melanie Abrams, Playing, s&m, sexuality, shame, UC Berkeley

(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: E. A. Longfellow

By Eric Longfellow

February 21st, 2017

The way I think about my writing is similar to the way I think about my kink—both have to do with history and the ethics around appropriation.

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Tags: (K)ink: Writing While Deviant, Amber Musser, appropriation, Arielle Greenberg, Armory Club, bdsm, Between the Body and the Flesh, class, classism, deviance, E. A. Longfellow, Eleven Thousand Rods, fetish, Georges Bataille, Guillaume Apollinaire, Hierarchy, Hogg, kink, kink.com, Lynda Hart, Marquis de Sade, Mollena Williams, paris, Pauline Réage, place, proust, race, Racism, Samuel Delany, San Francisco, San Francisco Armory, Sensational Flesh, setting, Sex, sexuality, stereotype, Story of O

Eric Longfellow holds a PhD in English/creative writing and has taught composition and creative writing courses at Illinois State University and San Francisco State University. He has editorial experience working for Dalkey Archive Press and Fiction Collective Two. Previous writing can be found in The Rumpus, CutBank Literary Magazine, and American Book Review, among other places.

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