 Sydney Morning Herald | Conversations from the body Sydney Morning Herald WOMEN aren't supposed to write about blood and body parts, torn flesh and burning pain in literature. Women's graphic intimacy and erotic pleasure is shelved as horror, porn or gothic bodice-ripper. It's too raw, too intense, not domesticated. |
 OregonLive.com | 'In One Person' review: A funny, sad journey through sexual exploration to ... OregonLive.com John Irving's 13th novel tells the story of Billy Abbott, a bisexual man who struggles with his attraction to men, women and transgendered individuals as the world changes around him. Irving courts his familiar obsessions in this picaresque novel ... |
 Toronto Star | Women elevate smut to a new literary status Toronto Star In fact, pornography is increasingly the domain of women writers. They seem to have managed to elevate it to a new kind of literary status, via deals with major publishers that have almost completely obliterated memories of its long-term tenure in ... |
 Bloomberg | Feel for Heel Allowed Women to Do Boardroom Deal Bloomberg In the early 1970s, after studying literature and architecture in Geneva, he put on his best red-and-white gingham suit and approached Vogue editor Diana Vreeland to show her his work. Among sketches for the set of a production of “A Midsummer Night's ... |
 The Sag Harbor Express | Is This What We've Come To? The Sag Harbor Express As a staunch feminist who believes women are still in the midst of fighting for their equality, Jong's books were meant to be empowering for women. She fears that “Fifty Shades of Grey,” which is selling out bookstores and building waiting lists at ... Many Public Libraris Won't Carry Book Virginia's State of Mind: Fifty shades of grey smut |
Sydney Writers' Festival: Melanie Joosten, Rohan Wilson, Jennifer Mills Sydney Morning Herald AWARDS: 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers; 2008-9 Commonwealth Short Story Competition (Pacific region); and 2008 Northern Territory Literary Awards: best short story. DAY JOB: Full-time writer. |
Perpetual: Shortlist for Kibble Literary Awards announced PR Leap (press release) COM) Perpetual today announced the 2012 shortlist for the prestigious Nita B. Kibble Literary Awards for Women Writers ("the Kibble Awards"). The awards recognise outstanding female literary achievement in two categories: the Kibble Literary Award for ... |
 Torontoist | Historicist: Throwing Intellectual Bombs Torontoist The well-known anarchist and feminist whom J. Edgar Hoover dubbed “the most dangerous woman in America” filled local lecture halls for talks on topics ranging from birth control and women's rights to literature, communism, and anarchism. |
 The Guardian | Writer Carlos Fuentes Dies Huffington Post (blog) Whether you agreed with his point of view or not, Fuentes always had something to say about literature, culture and politics. I attended the presentation of his last book La gran novela latinoamericana at El Instituto Cervantes in New York where he ... Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012: A voice of Mexico past, present and future |
 CTV.ca | The rise of sexy books Stuff.co.nz Our books celebrate and legitimise women's sexuality and sexual pleasure, in a way that helps them to embrace it and accept the urges that they have been told for thousands of years are wrong, sinful, dirty, even sick. We have heard from thousands of ... Chick lit goes a raunchy shade of blue |
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