June 20, 2016
In the summer of 1992 I walked out of the Kinko’s in Columbia, South Carolina, with a box full of books. The box contained the first book I had ever published. It was, oddly, a book on religious art. Yet…
June 4, 2016
TURIN EROTIC PAPYRUS The Turin Erotic Papyrus is a collection of sexual illustrations. The artist is unknown. It was created in Deir el-Medina, a village near Thebes in Egypt, about 1150 BC, during the reign of Pharoah Rameses the…
May 29, 2016
I was still in Columbia in the spring of 1992. Sitting on my porch, I read a story by Mark Twain. In it the greatest writer who had ever existed was never published, and his scripts were locked away in…
May 20, 2016
PIETRO ARETINO Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was a poet, playwright, satirist and letter-writer. He is known as the as the father of…
May 5, 2016
GERARD DAMIANO Gerard Damiano (1928-2008) was a director and writer of erotic films. His works included Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, Memories within Miss Aggie, The Story of Joanna, Let My…
May 1, 2016
I crouched up in the mountain stream that overlooked Sidney Park. In the southern heat, it was cooler up by the water. I had moved to moved to Columbia, South Carolina in 1991. Suddenly, I pulled out the script for…
April 23, 2016
I traveled down to Monroe Harbor to write. It was summer 1988, and I lived in Chicago. Listening to the boats clank, I lay on the slope above Lake Michigan. I pulled out the script of Ceremonies. It was the…
April 9, 2016
I trudged down the country road about 10 PM. It was summer 1985, and I was at a conference in Pennsylvania. A bonfire was being held, and I thought that might be fun to go to. It was located some…
April 5, 2016
I wandered around in the old Woodstock Library. It was fall 1983. I found an old paperback named The Pillow Book. The writer was Sei Shonagōn, a woman of the court of Japan about 1000 AD. Ivan Morris had translated…