Notable Los Angeles: 8/21–8/27
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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The Animals Die: On Reading Joy Williams
It might be a moment anyone of us has already missed. For all we know, we’re dead right now. Maybe this is it.
...moreTreatment as Metaphor
In our daily efforts to stay healthy, to invent solutions for staving off death, have we already put ourselves in treatment for diseases yet to come? Conner Habib writes about his cancer diagnosis over at The Stranger, challenging Susan Sontag’s argument against seeing illness as a metaphor by revealing the ways in which we can’t […]
...more“There Is No ‘After’ Porn”
It’s easy to assign porn names—which are often wildly flamboyant and unapologetically cheesy—to fictional identities, people who don’t exist off the screen. But at Buzzfeed, porn star and Rumpus contributor Conner Habib (né Andre Khalil) writes about how living in the age of the internet is making it more difficult for porn stars to successfully […]
...moreGuys Conner Habib Wanted to Fuck in High School
Crackerjack writer, porn actor, and Rumpus contributor Conner Habib has posted the latest in his “Guys I Wanted to Fuck in High School” series. It’s erotic and expansive and poignant, and you should read it right now. A preview: Do you want to hold my hand? I say. And then, quickly, Like just friends, I […]
...more“Searching for A Memory That Wasn’t There”
I met my friends in San Francisco, and I felt safe. I kept thinking – so curiously! – that I hoped he was okay. How could someone be so angry at whoever loved him? How must it feel to hate being loved, and then to have the person that loved you run away in fear? […]
...moreWhy You Can’t Take the “Porn” out of “Gay Porn”
When a community college in a small New York town hired Rumpus pal Conner Habib to speak about sex and culture for a campus Sex Week, he was psyched. After all, he’d grown up gay in a small town and knew firsthand how important it was to combat senseless taboos by talking openly about sexuality. But […]
...moreDeath of a Gay Porn Star
“Why do gay porn stars kill themselves” offers an intimate account into Conner Habib’s experiences in gay porn, and examines the cultural misunderstandings and attitudes regarding the recent suicide of gay porn star Arpad Miklos. Habbib says: The theories appeared as soon as the news did. It was immediate, like flies to a corpse. Theories […]
...moreBy the Time You’ve Seen It, It’s Too Late
Our best shot at understanding the foundation of obscenity law is through watching Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror film, The Evil Dead. In it, a group of (who else?) students stay (where else?) at a cabin in the woods. Amidst the jokes and sexual tension, they uncover a book of demonic spells and rites.
...moreOn Persecuting Porn Performers
“We don’t know why porn stars should not teach children, why it’s OK to watch porn but not be in it, why we should have to hide our involvement in pornography, or why we should be ashamed of it. These arguments apply, in differing degrees, to sex itself.” At The Advocate, Conner Habib reflects on […]
...more“If You Ever Write About Me…”
“Nothing links up, nothing makes sense, there’s only feelings and actions as you’re lost to something bigger than yourself. There is no cause. In that way, and perhaps in that way only, it’s like love.” Conner Habib writes a beautiful blog entry on the complexities of a past love and domestic violence.
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