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What was the First Sex Scene You Ever Read?

By Michelle King

February 12, 2014

Modern authors, editors and literati discuss their first encounters with the literary sex scene.

Literotica: Sophisticated Smut for Highbrow Readers

By Michelle King

February 11, 2014

Rather than reading 50 Shades of Grey, grab one of these 10 highbrow novels for your erotic fix.

10 Books That Stood Trial

By jake goldman

November 08, 2013

In which people get real upset over novelists and poets acknowledging the existence of sex and race.

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.