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. . . If anonymous blogging is already writing for the drawer and this blog is a space for my most personal and difficult thoughts, then where do I write down the things that I can’t even say here? One solution is personal friendships. I have a friend that frequently sends me emails with pieces [...]

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At the how to write erotica panel at Bluestockings the other night, two interesting resources were mentioned for writers interested in writing erotica.
Rachel recommended the Erotica Readers & Writers Association.
Michelle Herrera Mulligan mentioned taking this course, Silk Sheets: Writing Erotica, at the New School, and found it incredibly helpful:
Erotic writing has taken its place [...]

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Californication (Nerve)

Jane Smiley on her novel about 10 days of swimming, eating and screwing
by Joey Rubin
Jane Smiley’s latest novel, Ten Days in the Hills, is creating waves in the world of literary criticism the way Britney’s shaved head seems to be doing everywhere else. The cause? Graphic sex, of course. John Updike wrote that Smiley has [...]

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…Which to me is just dumb-ass. Why, I wonder, does sex remain a bad thing when we have television commercials, golden-lit and Vaseline-washed, of silver-haired couples holding hands with the spark-spark glimmer of erotic light in their eyes? How can fucking continue to be a verboten topic in mainstream media when everything—everything—from Dr. Ruth to [...]

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Call for submissions: Best Sex Writing 2008To be edited by Rachel Kramer BusselPublication date: November 2007Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007
Email: bestsexwriting2008@gmail.com
Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel is looking for personal essays and reportage for inclusion in the 2008 edition of Best Sex Writing, which will hit stores in November 2007. Seeking articles from across the sexual [...]

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