When Gloria Vanderbilt writes a BDSM novel, she gets a New York Times book review...

[randomness]

...and a blurb from Joyce Carol Oates.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/books/18gloria.html:

“Obsession” is written in stylized literary prose that owes something to Pauline Réage’s “Story of O,” and is set in a world that’s partly fantastical. It’s erotica, not porn. But it nevertheless uses vocabulary and describes activities of a sort that readers of The New York Times are usually shielded from. There are scenes involving dildos, whips, silken cords and golden nipple clamps, not to mention an ebony, smooth-backed Mason Pearson hairbrush purchased at Harrods. As the book explains, spanking with a Mason-Pearson is a “serious matter,” not the kind of thing that is rewarded with the “luscious afterglow of warm cocoa butter.” Mint, cayenne pepper and a fresh garden carrot are deployed in the book in ways never envisioned by “The Joy of Cooking.” And there is also a unicorn, though, blessedly, it remains a bystander.

Ms. Vanderbilt’s son Anderson Cooper, the CNN newscaster, who read “Obsession” in manuscript, said: “The six most surprising words a mother can say to her son are: ‘Honey, I’m writing an erotic novel.’"

Mason-Pearson will be selling a few more of their hairbrushes this year, I think.

Comments

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

*LAUGHS*

*chokes*

*coughs*

ooooooooooooookay.

[redbird]

"erotica, not porn": that means the reviewer liked it.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I should perhaps say, "you get a positive New York Times book review..."

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Poor Anderson....

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Really, I ought to get a Mason Pearson brush for my hair, since they're supposed to be very good at detangling and distributing the oils in curly hair, but they're a FORTUNE.

What? I don't need it as a spanking implement! The silver one with the bristles that'd trash my hair does a perfectly fine job.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

:)

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

Hilarious!