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Philip Glass and Tan Dun
The two most prominent American composers of our time have more in common than it would seem.
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Lust & Philosophy. A novel
Debut autobiographical novel will appeal to fans of Hermann Hesse, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard and other novelists of the uncanny.
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Multiply, cascade, explode: A theory of literary fiction
“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘Here are our monsters,’ without immediately turning the monsters into pets” — Derrida
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A modest proposal regarding sex work: Why all sex should be paid for
The sexual fees levied on hubby would compensate working wives for the housework they do on top of their day job.
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A Shakespeare sex-and-violence starter kit
It was not just Shakespeare’s obsession; we can assume virtually the entire audience attending his plays was syphilitic.
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Theatrics of Japanese Noh, Kabuki, and the mixed-bathing Onsen
A visit to a nude mixed-bathing Onsen revealed more than passing resemblance to the traditional Japanese dramatic stage.
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Advanced love: An essay
We are taught not to be misers with our money. But when it comes to the body, we are misers through and through.
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Newsex. A dramatic farce
X-rated dramatic farce set in a sexual re-education camp in a future Liberated California Republic.
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Gu Cheng, selected poems (trans. Isham Cook & Zhao Shufen)
China’s mad poet who savagely murdered his wife.
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August Stramm, poems (trans. Isham Cook)
Poems like teeth grinding away grammar: Germany’s Expressionist poet who died on the front in WWI.
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The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 1: New Gary, IN
The protagonist discovers he’s a convicted pedophile incarcerated in the city-wide concentration camp of former Gary, Indiana.
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