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Top 5 Emerging Writers Under 40
In response to the now-infamous New Yorker list of “Top 20 Under 40” writers “to watch,” Black Heart has compiled a list. Not a similar list, exactly, but a list of some of our favorite so-called “emerging writers,” people who write
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Make Mine Small Press
My aunt is a professional palm-reader, and as such, she has a fairly diverse customer base. Apparently, a real big-time Hollywood producer has my Noni commune with the spirits, I would guess, to see if Polar Express would pay off on the back end. My mom thought it would be a good idea for me, as a
Belle de Jour Revealed!
As you may have heard, a week before last, infamous blogger Belle de Jour (the woman behind the Diary of a London Call Girl blog and its related bestsellers) revealed her true identity. No, she’s not some horny housewife or a porn star in disguise;
Muslim Sex Advice
There’s a really interesting article by Samer Elatrash up on the Maisonneuve site entitled Muslim Sex. It notes that there’s a tradition within the Muslim faith for asking sex-related questions of both the Prophet
Born Trans
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the North American launch for French author Axel Léotard’s book Mauvais genre, a novel that deals with some of the many issues facing transgender people in France. Léotard writes from personal experience as a trans man, though the novel is not strictly
Fetishizing Sex Writers
Remember when I wrote just a few weeks ago about stalkers and protecting yourself? Recently deceased Montreal novelist and sex writer Nelly Arcan had a stalker. The cops say her death was a suicide, but something doesn’t
Original Sexperts: Anais Nin
Female sex writers often get labelled; people think they’re promiscuous, flighty, frivolous, that they’re porn stars or prostitutes or worse. They’re often assumed to be living the impossible life of Carrie
Is Erotica Dead?
"Specify type of goat" (photo: incubaker.com) Though the internet is full of porn of every variety, and all one has to do to find the appropriate fetish is to specify the type of goat they prefer, it seems to
Kinky Character Crushes: Tyler Durden
There are plenty of hot characters in literature to drive a girl mad. Of course, some only turn you on once they get transmogrified to the silver screen, to be played by gorgeous hunks of man-meat like Edward Norton or Brad Pitt, but doesn’t that really just make their original appearance in literature
The Kinkiest Characters in Literature
THE TOP FIVE: 5. Satan (Paradise Lost, Milton): Nobody can out-charm Milton’s Lord of Darkness. Much-lauded for his ability to transform himself into a giant slithering phallus. 4. Henry Miller (Tropic
