The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure

Porn is posh.  It is not explicit or pornographic: instead it is “libertine philosophy” (review of The Sexual Life of Catherine M in the Times Literary Supplement, no less).  It does not need to be concealed from wives and servants (see Mervyn Griffith-Jones’ Opening Address for the Prosecution in Lady Chatterley’s Trial).  It “exemplifies the [...]

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The Portable Dorothy Parker

I have a very learned friend with a passion for 20’s literature and a PhD in Psychoanalysis and Modernism’s Departure From Femininity.  She got married a little while ago and, appropriately, had a fabulously 20’s themed wedding with flapper dresses and tables named after the era’s most famous writers.  I was put on the Algonquin [...]

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