The Inward Pull and Pulsation: On the Erotics of Faylita Hicks’s A Map of My Want and Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle
Dorothy Chan on books by Faylita Hicks and Michael Chang that use sex in poetry to challenge norms.
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“Breakwater”: On the Craft of Sex in Poetry
Poet Keetje Kuipers on the art of writing about self-pleasure.
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Writing Sex
Jonathan Alexander on the craft of writing sex in nonfiction, looking at books by Zachary Zane and Tina Horn.
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Middle Age Has Never Been So Sexy: Role Play and Erotic Binaries in All Fours
Gwen E. Kirby on Miranda July’s latest novel and its radical act of depicting a sexual middle-aged woman.
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On the Literary Merits of Funny Sex
Edgar Gomez on crafting funny sex scenes in fiction and nonfiction.
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Folio: Writing about Sex
In this folio to accompany issue 21.2, five writers explore the craft of writing about sex.
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Special Feature: “Empathy in Three Movements” by Vedran Husić
A poignant and profound essay about the capacity for love and the devastation of grief.
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miCRo: “Departing” by Charis Morgan
The house would have folded sooner, but its clocks lost their hands.
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miCRo: “The Musculature of Restraint” by Carolene Kurien
I come back the next day and throw every curl sloughing itself off my head on the butcher scale.
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Announcing our Best of the Net Nominees
We are thrilled to announce our incredible nominations for this year’s Best of the Net Anthology!
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