to hear my friend and colleague Kate Dominic, author of Any 2 People, Kissing,on the Derek and Romaine Show. I wonder if she’ll talk about those two particular people who kissed on an awards show recently. You know who I mean. (Hermits excused.)
Yet another ebook reprint effort: Yes Portal points to readmagic.com, which reprints a lot of commercial porn novel from the late 20th century. (Sounds weird to say that!) Lots of bondage titles and many with incest themes, too. I wonder if that will hold up against scrutiny in today’s climate, but they do have a history of legal publication.
If the software readmagic.com uses is unfamiliar to you, I have used it via other web book publishers and it does the job. Its primary limit is that it’s computer-based only — no PDA support. That makes it outdated in terms of convenience and I hope they come current with today’s multi-PDA support soon because I read ebooks pretty much exclusively on my PDA. I hate reading from my laptop or (heaven forbid!) my desktop. But the software does do its intended job.
And speaking of online erotica, Mike Prevatt at the Vegas Mercury points to a gay online fiction repository.
Another erotica classic: Pierre Louys’ Songs of Bilitis, a thorough scam meant to capitalize on the Sappho rediscovered craze of long ago. Anything to get girl-girl sex, I guess!
In more traditional terms, biographer Judith Thurman looks at The Book of the Prick at the staid New Yorker. (Get to it quickly; NYer stories evaporate swiftly.) The book’s now available in an affordable paperback edition — you no longer have to squick over the $85.00 hardcover edition price. Sorry, boys, but no dick’s worth that amount of money.
