The Telegraph published an article about the current pro-sex feminism trend in literature. It reminds me of a local writer whose marketing campaign is very much centered around the question: Is it autofiction, or not?
What’s with the prostitute-turned-writer trend, and why is it so successful? (My blog gets lots of hits every week for people looking for « photos of N.A. » because I mentioned her once.) The article from The Telegraph quotes someone who comes up with an interesting explanation :
« Women will see her book as quite a fun thing to have, » predicts Pelling, who publishes a monthly extract in The Erotic Review. « It’s going to spark a lot of debates. Is she, isn’t she, would you do that? There are very few women who haven’t at some time or other imagined a scenario in which you find that is the only way you could make a living and entertained the idea, ‘What would that be like, if that was the only way I could make money?’ I think, it’s rather a common thought process, probably like men thinking, ‘What would it be like if I had to go away to war?’ »
(linked via Bookslut)