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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Horny Geniuses of Letters?

Posted by on January 10 at 15:07 PM

After filing this post, I wondered: Who is writing quality erotica in the 21st century? Which current writers are stimulating brains and loins with equal potency? Is anybody filling De Sade’s formidably kinky boots (with extravagantly lubricious prose, I mean)? Does a modern-day Henry Miller wax phallocentric among us? I’ve become out of touch (so to speak) with this branch of literature. Can anybody point to some future classics of the genre?


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Nicholson Baker comes to mind. I read the Fermata, and while he's a bit verbose, he can be pretty entertaining. I love the premise of the book- being able to stay active within "the Fold" while time is stopped for everything and everyone else. His other book VOX (linked to within the link) gained a bit of notoriety as well I gather...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679759336/103-8081212-2794236?v=glance&n=283155

Michel Houllebecq. He takes a deadened, misanthropic stance, but at least he's honest (and surprisingly frank).

I read this a while back. Although the central conceit is initially intriquing (the narrator can stop time and physically manipulate whatever women he chooses) it wore pretty thin before the book was done. He just seemed too self-satisfied, like he was doing some great favor of liberation to these women (and, by extension, humanity) by surreptitiously getting his rocks off. It was like every adolescent boy's fantasy cloaked in some sort of self-righteous, community-service delusion. I ended up just wanting to punch the guy.

I found the book of short stories about daddy/boy sex that I just gave as a birthday present infinitely hotter. You can find that one (among others) at the Crypt.

my post was referring to the Baker story The Fermata.

I'm reading Pedro Juan GutiƩrrez, Tropical Animal. He wrote the Dirty Havan Trilogy too, and well yes it's pretty dirty. He's compared to Henry Miller.

I've read those Nicholson Baker books. They were sporadically stimulating, but ultimately not HOTT enough to compare to the aforementioned masters (and mistresses).

Thanks for the other tips. I've read about Houllebecq; will have to explore further.

"Lofting" by Alma Marceau was a great book. Smart, literate, funny, and very sexy.

Nabokov's "Ada" has it's moments. And you feel better afterward than with Lolita, since they're both kids. I mean, a little better.

I've read Platform, by Houllebecq. It's worth reading, but do NOT read the blurb on the back of the book if you're going to read the book. Just cover it up or something. It pretty much gives away the ending, for some bizarre reason.

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