Equivalent Exchange (Night Shift)

Jiraiya (児雷也, born April 28, 1967) is a pseudonymous[1] Japanese gay manga artist and illustrator. He is noted for his homoerotic, hyperreal drawings of gachimuchi (ガチムチ, “muscle-curvy” or “muscle-chubby”) men, and for his use of digital illustration in his artwork. Jiraiya was born in 1967[2] to a working class family in Sapporo, Japan.[3] In the […]

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s […]

Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore (9 April 1911 – 20 August 2006) was a British architect, writer of erotic fiction, and a peer of the United Kingdom. Lord Deramore was educated at Harrow School and St. John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduation he earned a diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture. […]

Charles Collé (14 April 1709 – 3 November 1783) was a French dramatist and songwriter. The son of a notary, he was born in Paris. He became interested in the rhymes of Jean Heguanier, the most famous writer of couplets in Paris. From a notary’s office, Collé was transferred to that of the receiver-general of […]

Jan Hendrik Wolkers (Oegstgeest, 26 October 1925 – Texel, 19 October 2007) was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter. Wolkers is considered by some one of the “Great Four” writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, alongside Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve (the latter authors are also known as the “Great Three”).[1] […]