Sex
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Integrated Shelves
Sadly, like so many independently owned businesses, many LGBT bookstores are closing up shop. Andrew Belonsky argues that it may not be a cut and dry story of “big business squeezing out the little guy” though, but instead a sign…
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Field Notes: Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone / Thank You All Very Much
I’ve had the book for about a year. Margaret Drabble’s Thank You All Very Much, originally published in 1965 as The Millstone. My copy, a Signet edition from 1969, was given a new title, I think, to coincide with a…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #60: The World Lit By Other People
We don’t reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.
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International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Tomorrow, December 16th, is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Click here to learn how you can help “call attention to hate crimes committed against sex workers all over the globe.” (via @MissLoreleiLee) Update: Read Annie Sprinkle’s essay,…
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Sex in the Nation’s Capital
Over at Nerve Rumpus contributor Monica Shores talks to strangers about the sex in Washington DC.
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Five Mini-Interviews from The Rumpus
We at The Rumpus get bored with reading the same old interviews with the same old people. So, every now and again we like to publish “mini-interviews,” our readers talking with people we wouldn’t normally get to learn about. We like…
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jillian Lauren
I wrote the book with a tremendous suspension of disbelief; I wrote it as if no one was ever going to read it. I know that sounds like a cliché.
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Not Safe for Kids
Whoops! A Chinese publisher has had “to recall a collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales after mistakenly translating an erotic Japanese version of the stories.”
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #59: The Holidays are Hell(ish) Edition
Boundaries teach people how to treat you and they teach you how to respect yourself.
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Christmas With Crane
“Some girls shove cupcakes in their mouths and obscene hot dogs wrapped in bacon when there are holes punched through their hearts. I wander into strip clubs, hotels and casinos and offer my body to strangers for money.” Our own…
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And the Nominees Are…
Click here to find out who has been nominated for the eighteenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award. (via MobyLives)
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #57: That Ecstatic Parade
You mustn’t live with people who wish to annihilate you.