Kink: Stories

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F]ifteen writers explore power dynamics, self expression, and humanity through bends in desire. The stories...are alternatingly funny, poignant, sexy, anxiety-provoking—like kinks, like life." — VANITY FAIR

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Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon R.O. Kwon's nationally bestselling first novel, The Incendiaries, was named a best book of the year by over forty publications, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for Best First Book and Los Angeles Times First Book Prize. Kwon's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review, NPR, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow. Does the idea of intercourse among more than two people excite you? This can be a threesome, group sex or public sex. Those watching are also participants in the process: they are the audience witnessing the selfless performance of the actors. If this interests you, consider it a marker of the group kink. Dive into this collection of short stories written by several renowned fiction authors. Set in places like therapists’ offices, private estates, and a sex theater in early 20th century Paris, the stories explore various points across the sexual spectrum from love and desire to BDSM." — COSMOPOLITAN A "file MD5" is a hash that gets computed from the file contents, and is reasonably unique based on that content. All shadow libraries that we have indexed on here primarily use MD5s to identify files. Then one night after dinner, while I sat in the residency’s library surrounded by the novels, collections and memoirs previous writers in residence had published over the past century, I stumbled upon a story by Garth Greenwell in the Paris Review about two men meeting for a sadomasochistic hook-up. I had also just read Melissa Febos’s memoir Whip Smart, about her experiences with sex work, and it occurred to me that these stories could live together in the same book, the kind of book that might live on these library shelves.This short, eviscerating novel follows the relationship between Mari, a 17-year-old working in her mother’s moldering hotel, and a middle-aged Russian translator who is cultured, meticulous, and cruel. This is a surreal, uncomfortable, brilliant, utterly mesmerizing book. –GG Intimate and wide ranging in every sense, the script-flipping, heart-skipping stories gathered here speak to and across one another, conveying truths of desire, experience, and selfhood as only literature can." — BOOKLIST In essence, it’s like having the desire to find someone better than you: a “deity” you want to surrender yourself to, a man or a woman who could take you out of yourself. Someone who could make you “believe that there was something more important on earth than myself…” (Henry Miller). Fantasy – sex-positive app

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Using that list, one can single out a single basic thing that all definitions have in common: at the very least, a kink is something that ignites sexual desire. Audre Lorde’s writing is foundational to my understanding of women, bodies, and power, and her essay “ Uses of the Erotic ”gives me chills every time I reread it. If you haven’t yet read a lot of Lorde, first of all, you have so much joy ahead of you. Second of all, a good place to start is with the recently published The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, edited by Roxane Gay. –R.O. KwonKink: submission to someone who is much stronger. “I get very horny—I can cum at once—the very second I touch my lover’s biceps or his brawny shoulders. With the whole of my body I feel his strength and power over me, and the idea of my helplessness simply drives me crazy; this is a kind of incredible emotional experience.” The queer Colombian novelist Giuseppe Caputo is a major talent; English-language readers owe a debt to Charco Press for this translation of his first novel. (It came out in the UK in 2019, and finally becomes available in the US this month.) At the heart of the book is a devastating act of homophobic violence, images of which intertwine with revelatory meditations on the possibilities and disfigurements of internet-era sexuality. It’s an extraordinary book. –GG You can draw inspiration for these kinks from movie storylines or even snapshots from everyday life, like talking to a railway guard, buying a car, asking for a dance, changing clothes, training an inexperienced student or managing a company.