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Displaying all articles tagged:
The Best Sex I Ever Read
sexcerpt
Nov. 16, 2022
The Best Sex I’ve Ever Read: A Very Public Bus-Stop Kiss
“The narrator is discovering that his lover has a kink for exhibitionism,” says Alexander Chee, “and the narrator might share it.”
By
Alexander Chee
As told to
Isle McElroy
sexcerpt
Oct. 24, 2022
The Best Sex I’ve Ever Read: A Breastfeeding Housewife’s Nostalgic Lust
“I often think of this passage from
Bird
because of how uncomfortable it made me,” says
Three Women
author Lisa Taddeo, “and how much I like that.”
By
Lisa Taddeo
As told to
Natalie Villacorta
books
Sept. 29, 2022
The Best Sex That
Less
Author Andrew Sean Greer Has Ever Read
“Instead of thinking,
How will I describe a penis?
, you think,
What else is sex? What else will bring it alive to people?
”
By
Andrew Sean Greer
As told to
Isle McElroy
books
Sept. 6, 2022
The Best Sex Kristen Arnett Has Ever Read
“It’s extremely queer to be like,
I’m deeply sad, but it’s making me horny.
”
By
Kristen Arnett
As told to
Isle McElroy
books
Mar. 23, 2022
The Best Sex Julia May Jonas Has Ever Read
“Knausgaard is always looking at the people around him as objects. It feels like someone who’s not fully comfortable writing about sex.”
As told to
Lila Shapiro
books
Mar. 15, 2022
The Best Sex Melissa Febos Has Ever Read
“Eileen Myles invented this thing to compare sex to. It is absolutely working, but it is breaking a lot of the rules.”
As told to
Maddie Crum
books
Feb. 2, 2021
The Best Sex Melissa Broder Has Ever Read
“If you can get off to one story more than ten times, that’s a win.”
As told to
Lila Shapiro
books
Oct. 13, 2020
The Best Sex Emily M. Danforth Has Ever Read
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
author on the ineffable pleasures of Patricia Highsmith’s
The Price of Salt
.
As told to
Lila Shapiro
books
Aug. 4, 2020
The Best Sex Raven Leilani Has Ever Read
The author of
Luster
on the ecstatic, violent joy of Susan Choi’s
My Education.
By
Raven Leilani
As told to
Lila Shapiro
books
Mar. 12, 2020
Philip Roth’s Erotic Pee Scene Is One of the Most Tender Moments in Literature
What so many other writers might use just for shock value, Roth uses in a way that encapsulates these two people’s love for each other.
As told to
Maris Kreizman
books
Feb. 27, 2020
The Best Sex I Ever Read Was By the Famously ‘Dick-Centric’ Henry Miller
Mary Gaitskill on one of the few passages where the author praises someone’s vagina.
As told to
Lila Shapiro
fish sex
Sept. 19, 2018
The Best Sex I Ever Read:
Mrs. Caliban
In which a woman meets a hot amphibian.
By
Laura van den Berg as told to Hillary Kelly