A slightly sexy story about the power of reading, that originally appeared in the wonderful NYCBigCityLit online journal. Read on..... Cockeresque Never read Kafka when you are in love. There can be outcomes. I read In the Penal Colony with him, and The Metamorphosis with her. I shouldn't have shared the same author with the … Continue reading Storytime Sunday @ Magically Real, 01/29/12
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Reading SEVEN GOTHIC TALES: Transformation, Transvestism, and “feminine” desire
Like many women writers of the 19th Century, 20tth Century author Karen Blixen decided to use a male pseudonym, when she decided to give up working her ex-husband's coffee plantation in Africa, and try being a writer instead. Her pen name, Isaac, (Laughter) signals that she wants to laugh at the masquerade she has created … Continue reading Reading SEVEN GOTHIC TALES: Transformation, Transvestism, and “feminine” desire
Voguing the (im)possible: Beauty, sex, and fashion at 80, 90, and 120 in Vogue Magazine’s September 2011 Issue
Most of us talk about longevity, but few of us dare to imagine ourselves as REALLY old. AND fabulous. Living, not in a hospital, but in a hotel. Wearing a thick diamond clasp on one ear as we place our deeply wrinkled countenances in a suggestive side by side with a smooth skinned young man, … Continue reading Voguing the (im)possible: Beauty, sex, and fashion at 80, 90, and 120 in Vogue Magazine’s September 2011 Issue
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 