SEX, LIES, AND LITERATURE
To write fictional sex is unavoidably self revealing, and if you can’t handle the revelation, don’t go join the game in the first place. Advice Scooter Libby might well have taken before embarking on his 1996 novel "The Apprentice" which is now being scrutinized in this week’s edition of The New Yorker for its sex scenes and what they demonstrate about the indicted Bush cohort. Comment was solicited from Nancy Sladek, editor of Britain’s Literary Review, which, each year, holds a contest for bad sex writing in fiction. (In 1998, someone nominated the Starr Report.) Sladek agreed to review a few passages from Libby. "That’s a bit depraved, isn’t it, this kind of thing about bears and young girls? That’s particularly nasty, and the other ones are just boring," she said. "God, they’re an odd bunch, these Republicans." For decidedly odd excerpts...
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/051107ta_talk_collins

LESBIAN VAMPIRES
In related news, Miss Templeton has blogged on 19th century lesbian vampires. I can only hope that she eventually moves on to 20th and 21st century examples, and that my own former- Nazi starlet, occasional (in-so-far-as) lesbian vampire Julia Aschenbach – the constant irritant to Victor Renquist – will be included. I do so hate to be overlooked.
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AND HERE IS SOMETHING I WOULDN’T WALK ON WITH MY WORST ENEMY...
http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/skywalk.asp

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