http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/02/01/dirty-book-crowded-bus/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:47:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/02/01/dirty-book-crowded-bus/#comment-100604 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Made-Up Facts, Erotic and Otherwise Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:55:50 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/02/01/dirty-book-crowded-bus/#comment-100604 [...] That’s funny, I had much the same feeling after finishing Chuck Palahniuk’s new novel. (Rimshot!) Although there is a clear difference between the two works: In general, the entries tilt towards the intellectual, the magical realist, the transgressive and the gay. In the article on the novelist Jack Fritscher, Fritscher is quoted: “The gay erotic writer is to gay non-erotic writers what Ginger Rogers was to Fred Astaire: gay erotic literature does everything gay literature does, but it does it backwards and in high heels adding to its Olympic degree of difficulty and pleasure”. This is a striking but puzzling metaphor. What sort of shoes is the non-gay erotic writer wearing and for what sort of dance? [...] […] That’s funny, I had much the same feeling after finishing Chuck Palahniuk’s new novel. (Rimshot!) Although there is a clear difference between the two works: In general, the entries tilt towards the intellectual, the magical realist, the transgressive and the gay. In the article on the novelist Jack Fritscher, Fritscher is quoted: “The gay erotic writer is to gay non-erotic writers what Ginger Rogers was to Fred Astaire: gay erotic literature does everything gay literature does, but it does it backwards and in high heels adding to its Olympic degree of difficulty and pleasure”. This is a striking but puzzling metaphor. What sort of shoes is the non-gay erotic writer wearing and for what sort of dance? […]

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