Dave Eggers at BookPeople
Okay, seriously: What’s up with you Austinites and your wristbands? Apparently Dave Eggers, founder of McSweeney’s
Featured Story
Writers’ League of Texas Book Sale and Panel Discussion, March 18
Even the Writer’s League of Texas is getting in on SXSW fever! They’ll be holding a Sidewalk Book Sale on March 18 in the WLT parking lot at 611 South Congress, starting at 1 PM and extending to 6:30 PM to get in on the act and take advantage of springtime in Austin. Bookstore
News
Breaking the Rules
Erotica has always been a favorite genre of mine, perhaps because it has always come easily to me. However, it’s also a genre that easily creates
Fiction
Fiction Friday: Biblical Proportions
My Dad believes that Jesus is magic. And not in the Sarah Silverman way, either; he really and truly thinks the dude performed miracles, even from beyond
Poetry
Love Machine
RealDoll image courtesy of Anoush Abrar and Aimée Hoving the Kama Sutra says that there are 64 erotic positions which
Commentary
Belle de Jour Revealed!
As you may have heard, a week before last, infamous blogger Belle de Jour (the woman behind the Diary of
Literary Events
Five Things, Fractured Fables
Local literary group Five Things presents their monthly performance this Friday, March 5 at the United
Interviews
Hot Lit: A Down & Dirty Interview with Jon Paul Fiorentino
As Montreal gears up for the internationally acclaimed literary festival Blue Metropolis, which begins
Reviews
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
I hate reading bestsellers. Maybe this is a stupid prejudice, or maybe it proves what a snob I am, but in general, I’ve found that I’m more
Summer 2006
Bad Sex with Bad Writers
You wouldn’t think it would be difficult to write humorously about bad sex, but you’d be wrong. I mean, I expected to read about truly bad,
Fall 2005
Andrew
Even in our moments of most profound intimacy, I have always harbored a deep resentment for Andrew. There are few revelations more painful than the recognition
Spring 2005
The Ballad of Trolley-Girl Betty
Here lies Trolley-Girl Betty ‘neath a belly of dirt. When Betty was livin’ she sure liked to flirt. But men didn’t move her, she wanted
Winter 2004
Closure
It starts with a crash. You wonder what it could have been that made you jump. You look around the apartment; maybe your dog knocked something over. The
Summer 2004
Games
Some relationships are built on love and trust. Ours was a house of cards, made with a deck stolen from The Mirage. You can still see the holes punched
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I’m Not Through With You Yet!
That’s it. I’m out of retirement and bringing Black Heart to Austin, despite the Bible-thumpers, the hipster-douchebags, and the just plain uptight. Bend over, Austin. You’ve got a Smut
So Long, and Thanks for All the Smut
Dear friends and fans of Black Heart, It’s been swell, but it couldn’t last forever. Black Heart has been a pet project of mine for years, and while I’ve enjoyed producing some of the
When to Submit
Carl pivots into me and hits an easy lay-up to go up 7-1. From the top of the key, I immediately turn my back to him. He grinds into me. We’re about the same height, so his crotch rubs against
Five Dumb Things Said After Sex: Part 5 of 5
I think you’re old enough to be my mom… that’s hot. This last dumb thing could be taken as a compliment. Maybe a backhanded one, but still. As you’ve read by now, these top five
Five Dumb Things Said After Sex: Part 4 of 5
For a woman my age to keep up with men that are half my age, physically I have to look half my age. So I work out every day, watch what I eat, blah blah blah. Michael
Five Dumb Things Said After Sex: Part 3 of 5
By this point, I had become the typical cynical New Yorker. I still loved my fellow humans; I just didn’t trust men. I still don’t, but I refuse to give up on the hope that some man out there
Five Dumb Things Said After Sex: Part 2 of 5
Manhattan is the perfect place for a middle-aged professional woman to start life over. I love Sex and the City, and actually have dreams of someday having Carrie Bradshaw-like exploits. Carrie Bradshaw
Five Dumb Things Said After Sex: Part 1 of 5
My entry into The Cougarhood was totally by accident. It all started when my husband of eleven years one day decided that he wanted to start his life over with the typical SoCal, blonde-haired, dumb-as-nails
