porn writing
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The Last Pulp Star
Chris Offutt talks about the life and death his father, one of America’s last adult-pulp writers, for NY Times Magazine: In the mid-1960s, Dad purchased several porn novels through the mail. My mother recalls him reading them with disgust — not…
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The Scholars and the Pornographer
Dame Helen Gardner and George Newton Bowlin Laws—it seems funny, but very good to me to see them in the same sentence. I first saw Helen Gardner, brilliant scholar, denizen of Oxford University, later to be made a Dame on her…