What I’m reading… ‘Conquering Hollywood: The Screenwriter’s Blueprint for Career Success’

From Amazon:

There are over 1,094 books on Amazon that show you “how to write a screenplay”… but next-to-nothing on how to break into Hollywood, sell your script, and build a successful writing career. Until now. As a producer, Gary W. Goldstein’s movies have generated well over $1B in global box office receipts. His portfolio includes […]

2018-01-12T14:37:28+11:00February 1st, 2015|Recent posts, What I'm reading|0 Comments

What I’m reading… ‘The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History’

From review:

“The moment when a man comes to paint himself – he may do it only two or three times in a lifetime, perhaps never – has in the nature of things a special significance.” So Lawrence Gowing wrote, in an introduction to a 1962 exhibition of British self-portraits. And he is right: self-portraits, whether […]

2018-01-12T14:37:28+11:00January 30th, 2015|Recent posts, What I'm reading|0 Comments

What I’m reading… ‘Slow Sex: The Path to Fulfilling and Sustainable Sexuality’

“Like everything else in this fast-forward world, our sex lives have been infected by the virus of hurry. Slow Sex is the perfect antidote.”
–Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slowness

“How rare it is for a book to appear about sex and sensuality with a truly fresh and innovative approach. Diana Richardson has crafted a […]

What I’m reading…’The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema’

From Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction to Naked Obsession and Victim of Desire, Williams provides a roadmap to the exploitation cinema of the video age that is as lively as the movies it describes. ‘She intersperses her wryly provocative analyses of ‘suspense in suspenders’ or ‘cops and copulation’ pictures with to-the-point interviews.’ – Sight and […]

What I’m reading…’Thy Neighbor’s Wife’ by Gay Talese

Published over 30 years ago, a fascinating insight into the so-called sexual revolution. Where are we today?

http://www.amazon.com/Thy-Neighbors-Wife…

From an interview with Gay Talese…

I wonder if younger people watching Mad Men today could ever find orgies or adultery shocking.

I tell you this: Today, sex and the culture surrounding it doesn’t have the pop that it did in […]

2018-01-12T14:37:31+11:00December 20th, 2014|Recent posts, What I'm reading|0 Comments

What I’m reading… ‘Vagina’ by Naomi Wolf

Though “fun” is not a word that Wolf herself would use. A “Wolfian” orgasm is much more than fun. It is bliss itself. She terms it the “high orgasm” and describes it as “that kind of orgasm that most intensely induces the most complete possible trance state and that most involves all the body […]

2018-01-12T14:37:46+11:00November 26th, 2014|Recent posts, What I'm reading|0 Comments

What I’m reading… ‘The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution’

Spanning the years from Sanger’s heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes.

Brilliantly researched […]

2018-01-12T14:37:48+11:00November 3rd, 2014|Recent posts, What I'm reading|0 Comments
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