Excerpts from Kevin Sampsell’s new book This Is Between Us—about sex, love… and sex.
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This Is Between Us
Excerpts from Local Author Kevin Sampsell’s New Book about Sex, Love… and Sex
Kevin Sampsell
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A Common Pornography
Excerpts from Kevin Sampsell’s New Autobiography About His Sexual Awakening
Excerpts from Kevin Sampsell’s new memoir A Common Pornography.
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Character Witness
An Interview with Stephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott talks S&M and 20/20.
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Inspiration for Clueless Kids: The Mark Oliver Everett Interview
Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett talks about his new book, and reading on the road.
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An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport
by Kenny Mayne (Crown Publishers)
There are times when Kenny Mayne is the funniest guy on TV. But unless you watch SportsCenter on ESPN, you probably don’t know who he is. As one of the anchors on the daily highlight show, the native Northwesterner (he grew up in Kent, Washington) salts and peppers his commentary with intelligent snark and subtle […]
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Matthew Sharpe
(Harcourt)
Life must have been hard for those early American settlers. The place now known as Jamestown, Virginia, was full of badass Indians with sharp arrows and a language that white folk didn’t understand—not to mention deadly microbes that could tear apart the intestines of any unaware traveler. Now imagine setting that legendary American history in […]
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We Disappear
by Scott Heim (Harper Perennial)
It’s weird to imagine that a fucked-up novel like Scott Heim’s We Disappear could be partly autobiographical. The parts about holding a boy captive in the basement are not, thankfully. The dying mother who makes up stories of her own kidnapping isn’t either. But Heim’s long-awaited third novel does feature a meth-head narrator named Scott […]
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Invincible Summer
by Nicole Georges (self-published)
When local artist and zinester Nicole Georges discussed her sexuality with her mom last year, it turned into such an awkward conversation that the 27-year-old made a video re-creation of it to gain some perspective. “It’s my coming-out story with my dog playing my mom. She was like, ‘Why are you a lesbian? Didn’t you […]
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Hiding Out
by Jonathan Messinger (Featherproof Books)
Cringe-lit. It has roots in the work of David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, and Jonathan Ames, as well as reality TV, the Mortified tell-all phenomenon, and Found magazine. It’s a genre that gleefully reveals the most embarrassing aspects of life, not necessarily to make readers recoil in horror, but to unabashedly show that we all do […]
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Pete McCracken
What you’re seeing is 10 years worth of pack-ratting,” says Pete McCracken as he gives me a
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A Complicated Kindness
When I read A Complicated Kindness I didn’t know what I was getting into. I had no idea who Miriam Toews was or what Mennonite families