A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Tristan Taormino, adult film director and editor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Pleasure, defines what makes her porn feminist.
Read MoreIn re-reading John Kennedy Toole's brilliant A Confederacy Of Dunces, I noticed that Ignatius J. Reilly's absurdly confident declarations would be right at home on a certain Internet hellhole.
Read MoreIn Nancy Weber's riveting 1975 memoir-cum-cautionary tale The Life Swap, now back in print, she asks New York-based women if they want to swap lives. Her premise: You can borrow my name, wear my clothes, sleep with my husband, call my parents Mom and Dad. The result: can't-tear-yourself away tragedy.
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