Contributors on why you’ll have to guess who wrote what.
“Anonymous Sex” brings stories from Téa Obreht, Louise Erdrich, Mary-Louise Parker and more. We have such a lack of good words in commonly spoken, everyday colloquial English to talk about sex.”īooks Sex writing as literary parlor game? Why 27 writers decided to bare (almost) all I’d always avoided writing about sex because it’s really hard to write about well. “I could have followed the same template and had a career writing detective novels over and over again, but that’s not what I want to do with my life. “I think, as a writer, it’s a good idea to challenge yourself and do what you haven’t done before,” she said. For Gran, the choice to make sex a major aspect of the story was very intentional. As the intensity of the rituals escalates, so do the stakes for the participants - with unexpected consequences. The book that Lily seeks outlines a series of spells that must be completed by a pair of willing partners. What distinguishes “The Book of the Most Precious Substance” from Gran’s other novels is lots and lots of sex. It’s still this primary story for me, that one day, I will find a book and everything will make sense.”
“I don’t know where I got this idea that if you just find the right book, everything will change,” Gran said, “but it’s one of those things that I can’t shake, no matter how many times it fails to happen in real life and no matter how many times I write about it. Books Author Sara Gran is as blunt as her Claire DeWitt characterĪuthor Sara Gran is as blunt as her Claire DeWitt character
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