The Tryst by Monique Roffey
another sexy sexy sex book
Tag: sex
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anaïs Nin
a literary lifestyle novelist in the GUM clinic
The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments by Ann Quin
Find out what Scott Manley Hadley has been reading and doing
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele
Keen to work out what my sexuality is but too repressed to do it using sex
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Gorgeous, sensuous, unforgettable
#TotNTV: SEX
Chris Nelson, Ella Frears, David Ralfe & William Wyld chat sex.
50 Euro by Karina Bush
if sex sells who’s buying
Home is on my Mind… by Sheena Rose
Review of a lo-fi art book and footnotes about depression
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
An important new novel about sexual assault. Long post.
Music & Literature No. 7
I get angry and confused because I’m repressed and have elitist interests
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
“Herod’s Filthy Bathtime” from The Body and the Baptist
Once upon a time, I was trying to be a writer…
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men: they wear T-shirts saying “Smash the patriarchy” with an arrow pointing at their penis
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Max Porter Works In Publishing
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
This dystopian novel feels a bit too 2016…
Music act SOLID BALD performs ‘SexBomb’
Life means nothing. So you may as well sing:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
an accurate depiction of the lust and boredom that threatens to overwhelm all of us who aren’t pious, delusional, fuckheads
“Cuban Prostitutes” from Tell Me About Love
In memory of Fidel Castro, some prose inspired by Pedro Juan Gutierrez from a decade ago.
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
I’m bored of life, but this book’s a banger.
[sung] oooh, fellas: what’s ya dicksiiiize?
A 4 second Noise Piece and a link to more madness at the HuffPo
Sodom and Gomorrah (À la recherche du temps perdu 4) by Marcel Proust
A La Recherche du Temps Perdu 4: This Time It’s Gay
kill yourself, you hipster faggot
some anonymous little merican sent poppa some h8 mail and poppa aint havin none of it
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
Love is not the preserve of the randy, love is not just something that happens with pants off or about to be off…
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
This is my first blog post in a while, and even then it’s still happening a little earlier than expected.Continue Reading
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
I’ve accidentally grown a goatee and as a result of this I now look like a sex pervert*. This wasContinue Reading
So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder
I shouldn’t have read this. CONTEXT: I walk a tightrope, emotionally, one that has become longer and looser ever sinceContinue Reading
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
A Cup of Rage is a Brazilian novella by Raduan Nassar first published in 1978 as Um Copo de Cólera. InContinue Reading
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
The intellectual and emotional vigour with which I’ve approached What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy has left me bawling in the street,Continue Reading
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
It is 1230am on a Friday night, I am (which is very rare for me) not at work, my girlfriendContinue Reading
Flaubert in Egypt by Gustave Flaubert (kind of)*
Flaubert in Egypt is ostensibly (though it isn’t) a book written by Gustave Flaubert about his hedonistic travels through EgyptContinue Reading
Sex: The Summer of Hard by Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski
Again, I am too caffeinated to concentrate, too buzzed up to stop typing for more than the fifteen minutes orContinue Reading
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Iran. Who knows much about it? We’ve all seen Argo, we’ve all heard of nuclear weapons, we’re all aware thatContinue Reading
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
I read every other novel by Jonathan Franzen during a period of about 18 months after really, really enjoying FreedomContinue Reading
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
This is a late novella of Tolstoy’s, and one famous for espousing a narrative rooted in his late-life, anti-sexuality, opinions.Continue Reading
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann is not a widely-read novelist any more, though in the middle of the 20th-century, she was both popularContinue Reading
Love, Sex & Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong
Until yesterday, when I read the last 100 pages of Jesse Armstrong’s Love, Sex & Other Foreign Policy Goals, IContinue Reading
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Last night, as I wandered between bars and cafes in Taksim, North of the Golden Horn, I read most ofContinue Reading
The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble
I haven’t read a play for a while. I used to read plays all the time, it was one ofContinue Reading
A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing was a surprise critical smash in the heady days of 2013/14, atContinue Reading
Audition by Ryu Murakami
I haven’t read a novel by the “other” Murakami for years. In my long and distant and pre-blogging past, IContinue Reading
Mrs Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio
I don’t know if anyone else likes little books as much as I do, but I’ve been particularly charmed recentlyContinue Reading
The Tongues of Men or Angels by Jonathan Trigell
I like Biblical novels. So much so that I wrote one*, and so much so that after reading about ten/twenty,Continue Reading
Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgaard
For the past four years, the big literary release (for me) has been the continuing publication of Karl Ove Knausgaard’sContinue Reading
The Minister of Evil – The Secret History of Rasputin’s Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux
The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin’s Betrayal of Russia is a very strange book. I read itContinue Reading
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
I have read Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl for my book club, and will now write a review in two parts.Continue Reading
10:04 by Ben Lerner
Well, I just wrote a huge, gushing review of this and then my computer crashed and deleted it. So, withContinue Reading
Justine by Marquis de Sade
Last night I cut my hand in several places on a broken champagne flute, and to recuperate took myself offContinue Reading
Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer
My pile of books, towering as it often is in January, needs to be got through. So in order toContinue Reading
Filth by Irvine Welsh
Recently I’ve been very much enjoying Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong*’s Channel 4 police drama, Babylon. This under-watched TV showContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 