Books
These tomes are best enjoyed while temperatures are high and inhibitions are low.
Every summer, I give myself over to the senses.
Last summer, I couldnt get enough nonfiction.
I read dishy, Hollywood-adjacent memoirs likeTina BrownsThe Vanity Fair DiariesandJulia PhillipsYoull Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again.
One that I took to calling, slutty books.
(Aside from them all being what Ive jokingly referred to as Sally Rooney-core.)
And what Ive found is that while they all traffic in sex, theyre decidedlynotromance novels.
Because unlike a romance novel, here theres no promise of a happy ending.
(In fact, more often than not, there isnt one.)
And what feels more sensory (or slutty) than that?
She is, in the words of one of her boyfriends, my favorite postmodern girl.
Yes, there’s lots of sex in this novel.
But it’s our narrator’s love of Duane Reade sushi that makes this bookslutty.
have aged like dairy products.
Its like Im floating on a river, and I feel this little itch.
Thats a total orgasm.
Kate Flannery, author ofStrip Tees
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Dawnby Octavia Butler
Would you do it with an alien?
How about a threesome with one fellow human and one alien?
The novel simply is, hot as viscera.
A restrained but horny gesture.
That’s about as slutty as my reading gets.
Kaitlin Phillips, indie publicist
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The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C.
Andrews Storyby Andrew Neiderman
I dont know if young people still read the work of V.C.
She really taught me a thing or two about life and how not to live it.
I always wondered what kind of life V.C.
Andrews fuck her stepfather in her wheelchair?
I learned as much from this book about V.C.
Andrews as I learned from V.C.
herself, and even though it is probably only a 6/10, I wouldnt change a singlething.
It follows two jurors who start an illicit affair during a murder trial.
As a deeply horny woman who also loves true crime, I couldnt put this one down!
And while the sex scenesdodeliver, its Ernauxs depiction of her naked desperation for her lover that felt trulyslutty.
This article was originally published onAug.
