Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine
who is this for?
Tag: Sexuality
The First Day by Phil Harrison
mainstream literary fiction that I very nearly love
Maurice by E. M. Forster
a snobbish delight
Death In Venice by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, What A Very Thom Man
Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
why I owned but didn’t read this book for five years (anger, depression)
Typhoid August by Sarah Fletcher
chapbook review that turns into me recounting my entire relationship with sex
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
some really gorgeous prose
Hasard Objectif by Joanna Walsh
love love love love love… and books
Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
some inappropriate teenage nostalgia
Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
it’s not love if u pretend they don’t shit
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
a dark, engaging, affecting read
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
v good poems tho a v poor blog post
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
very booker prize winnery booker prize winner
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
a deluge of hand jobs and suicides cannot save this
Through your blood by Toby Campion
i went to a poetry open mic night
Bear by Marian Engel
simply the bestial
SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
tell me again how bad i am
The Tryst by Monique Roffey
another sexy sexy sex book
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
#TotNTV: Winnie M Li & Dark Chapter
#TotNTV episode discussing a novel about sexual assault
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
Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabel
Good Czech book, but do I need to try harder to czech my privilege?
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
some contemporary literary fiction about scotland
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
this is not a test, it’s a memoir
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…
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…
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
[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
R u a gay or a racist???
A bald head looks like the tip of an erect penis without the external urethral meatus.
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…
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
I don’t know where this book came from. I know I bought it, I’m pretty certain I went out ofContinue Reading
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
Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale by Laura Engelstein
You are in a wooden hut in the depths of Siberia, thousands of miles from the lands of your ancestors.Continue 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
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
A few months ago I read Anne Carson’s recent, (rightfully) acclaimed Red Doc>, a narrative collection of poems about G,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 