To accompany our fall 2024 issue (21.2), we have curated a folio on writing about sex (reviews and craft essays) after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include sex, especially the play excerpt by Gloria Oladipo, John Fulton’s story “Emily Leaves Switzerland,” Karolina Letunova’s story “Turn Your Back to the Forest,” and poems by Keetje Kuipers and Jessica Nirvana Ram. We reached out to five writers to get their contributions to the conversation:
Contents
- Jonathan Alexander, “Writing Sex”
- Dorothy Chan, “The Inward Pull and Pulsation: On the Erotics of Faylita Hicks’s A Map of My Want and Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle“
- Edgar Gomez, “On the Literary Merits of Funny Sex”
- Gwen E. Kirby, “Middle Age Has Never Been So Sexy: Role Play and Erotic Binaries in All Fours“
- Keetje Kuipers, “‘Breakwater’: On the Craft of Sex in Poetry”
