crossroads chapter sampler jonathan franzen

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Franzen’s follow-up to The Corrections, published in 2010, was another breeze block of social realism.

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Ready? Here we go.Crossroads Franzen, Jonathan E Abarbanell, Bettina Book - eBay If you’re still with us: it’s time to brave the briny waters of sex à la Jonathan Franzen. If these things make you uncomfortable, this is not the post for you. There will be raunchy and explicit language, there will be material about domination and submission. As with much of the content in today’s post, the content is R-Rated.

To kick things off, we are going to experience a sex scene written by Jonathan Franzen.

I’m less interested in the delineation between “good” sex writing and “bad” sex writing (which is subjective), and far more interested in what sex scenes can do for a given narrative. In today’s newsletter, we’re going to explore the joys of sex writing. Alyssa Songsiridej’s debut novel “ Little Rabbit ” was positively confetti-ed with prize nominations this year, and it’s a highly erotic book, and writers such as Carmen Maria Machado, Melissa Broder, and Terry McMillan have been infusing haute-couture literature with hot sex scenes for many spicy years, now. Thankfully, we live in a slightly more open-minded world in in terms of what can and can’t happen, sexually, in literary writing. It wasn’t all that long ago that sex and sex-adjacent scenes in high brow literature sent publishers’ pulses into overdrive because they thought their readers would confuse their literary fiction titles with the black sheep genre, romance.

It’s only in hindsight that I realize that including sex scenes in literary fiction is a polemic act. So I just wrote those sex scenes, just like I wrote him eating when he needed to, and painting, which was how he earned a living. When I was writing them as a baby in my twenties, I didn’t give much thought to it because that novel is about infidelity, and there were quite a few times when my main character (the cheater) was going to have sex. My first novel has quite a few sex scenes in it. Or rather let’s talk about writing sex scenes which is an art that doesn’t get taught or discussed enough. In honor of Valentines Day, let’s…talk about sex.

Crossroads chapter sampler jonathan franzen