Book Review: The Sexy Librarian’s Big Book of Erotica
This book has everything: male and female authors, different types of couples, ghosts, talking alcohol bottles, the list goes on.
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Book Review: The Boss
That, my friends, is how you weave feminism into a romance novel.
Read MoreConsent, Children’s Lit, and Ella Enchanted
Ella Enchanted makes it clear that obedience is not a virtue, and that never having the option to refuse is a miserable, unlivable existence.
Read MoreBook Review: Active Duty, Gay Military Erotic Romance
Active Duty is in turn sweet, funny, sexy, and graphic.
Read MoreEbook Review: WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE?
It scares me when people say I’m sweet because I’m not. I’m bitter enough to burst, half-sick with rage on my good days. I wish someone hated him the way I did, so that I could stop, so that I could get rid of this fury that rots & blooms inside of me. This is […]
Read MoreBook Review: Daddy, a Memoir
Today I want to talk about Madison Young’s ‘Daddy: a Memoir’. In the interest of full disclosure, I should start this post by mentioning I am one of two literary interns on Team Madison, promoting Young’s memoir ‘Daddy’ and helping with future publishing projects. I cannot be impartial as a reviewer, and I won’t try […]
Read MoreBook Review: Give It To Me
One of my most memorable tasks as an intern with the Feminist Press last summer was writing up the advance information sheets for Anna Castillo’s novel Give It To Me, then a manuscript in the early stages of copy-editing. The AI sheets would be used to pitch the book to sales representatives and bookstores. It […]
Read MoreBook Review: Best Women’s Erotica 2014
Best Women’s Erotica 2014 is a tremendous sampler of what erotica has to offer.
Read MoreBook Review: Dark Secret Love and The Delicious Torment
As some of you may know, I am writing my undergraduate thesis about feminist erotica. This requires two main steps: thinking about what makes erotica feminist by devouring anthologies and classic work deemed landmark women’s fiction like Delta of Venus and Fear of Flying, and then writing my own fiction by applying that analysis. Political […]
Read MoreErotic Romance Review: Smokin’ Hot Firemen
Erotica and erotic romance do not need to be fiercely divided categories.
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Ella Dawson 