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Writers’ League of Texas Book Sale and Panel Discussion, March 18

Writers’ League of Texas Book Sale and Panel Discussion, March 18

By Crack Books • on March 10, 2010

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

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News

Breaking the Rules

Breaking the Rules

By Laura Roberts • on February 28, 2010

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

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Fiction

Fiction Friday: Biblical Proportions

Fiction Friday: Biblical Proportions

By Laura Roberts • on March 5, 2010

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

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Poetry

Love Machine

Love Machine

By Val Capone • on June 11, 2008

RealDoll image courtesy of Anoush Abrar and Aimée Hoving the Kama Sutra says that there are 64 erotic positions which

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Commentary

Belle de Jour Revealed!

Belle de Jour Revealed!

By Laura Roberts • on December 3, 2009

As you may have heard, a week before last, infamous blogger Belle de Jour (the woman behind the Diary of

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Literary Events

Five Things, Fractured Fables

Five Things, Fractured Fables

By Laura Roberts • on March 3, 2010

Local literary group Five Things presents their monthly performance this Friday, March 5 at the United

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Interviews

Hot Lit: A Down & Dirty Interview with Jon Paul Fiorentino

Hot Lit: A Down & Dirty Interview with Jon Paul Fiorentino

By Laura Roberts • on April 21, 2009

As Montreal gears up for the internationally acclaimed literary festival Blue Metropolis, which begins

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Reviews

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

By Crack Books • on March 8, 2010

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

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Summer 2006

Bad Sex with Bad Writers

Bad Sex with Bad Writers

By Laura Roberts • on March 4, 2009

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,

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Fall 2005

Andrew

Andrew

By Mark Mann • on September 6, 2005

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

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Spring 2005

The Ballad of Trolley-Girl Betty

The Ballad of Trolley-Girl Betty

By Greg Santos • on April 6, 2005

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

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Winter 2004

Closure

Closure

By Kathleen Savoy • on December 6, 2004

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

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Summer 2004

Games

Games

By Laura Roberts • on June 7, 2004

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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Furthermore...

Dave Eggers at BookPeople

Okay, seriously: What’s up with you Austinites and your wristbands? Apparently Dave Eggers, founder of McSweeney’s

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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

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Oranges

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Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg

Chicago Poems by

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Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

Beautiful Losers

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Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

Gun,

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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

What

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The Way of Silence: The Prose and Poetry of Basho by Richard Lewis

The Way of Silence: The Prose

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Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer

Time

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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