Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Almost there


So my book The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine will be published on the 22nd April.

I have a book launch in Qld on the 30th April at Avid Reader (in conversation with John Birmingham)

Sydney: Book launch May 4th at Better Read than Dead with Benjamin Law

Qld: May 7th at Riverbend Bookshop in conversation with Ashley Hay about reading and writing erotic literature

Melbourne: May 14th at Readings Carlton with Christos Tsiolkas

Tonight I will be doing a pre-record with Radio National's Paul Barclay for Big Ideas talking about Reading Pornography in a post 50 Shades of Grey world and on April 9th I will be on Richard Fidler's Conversation Hour talking about pornography and my work and also poetry.

The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine is a big crazy sex romp and I had to read an awful lot of porn to be able to write it.

Holly White finds her sexual power through reading the erotic classics. This is something that she and I share. I owe a debt of gratitude to those who have boldly gone before me, leaving a trail of crumbs for me to feast on as I picked my way out of the woods and towards to the completion of this book. The books I devoured in order to produce this book include the ones referenced within. These are…

A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich
A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin
The House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata
Vox by Nicholson Baker
Nadja by Andre Breton
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Philosophy in the Boudoir by Marquis de Sade
The infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
Little Birds by Anais Nin
The Lover by Margurite Duras
The Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
The Eleven Thousand Rods by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Dangerous Liasons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Story of O by Pauline Réage (Ann Desclos)
Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller
The Recollections of a Mary-Ann by Jack Saul
120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
She-Devils by Pierre Louys
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Irene’s Cunt by Louis Aragon
Josephine Mutzenbacher by Felix Salten
The Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade
Eat Me by Linda Jaivin
The Butcher by Alina Reyes
A Thousand and One Nights by various authors


3 comments:

Tez Miller said...

Ooh, I hope to make it to your Melbourne event in May. If you see an RSVP link for it, will you share it, please?

Thanks for everything, and have a lovely day! :-)

Meg Brewster said...

How exciting! I started reading your bog after the last years Emerging writers fest, when you where chatting about this book you were working on.
I'll be looking for it!

Krissy Kneen said...

Readings haven't got it on the website yet but I think you can probably call them and make a booking. Here is the Text list of events so far. I will also be at the Sydney Writers Festival in mid may

https://www.textpublishing.com.au/events/krissy-kneen-in-carlton