Down a Country Road

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (/bəˈtaɪ/; French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, economics, sociology and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as erotism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. His work would prove influential […]

Éric Losfeld (Mouscron, 1922 – Paris, 1979) was a Belgian-born French publisher who had a reputation for publishing controversial material with his publishing imprint Éditions Le Terrain Vague.[1] He was the publisher of Emmanuelle (1967), two film magazines (Midi Minuit Fantastique and Positif) founded by Ado Kyrou. Read:  Keeping Christmas: Sweet Western Romance (Rodeo Romance […]

Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. Lawrence Block was born June 24, 1938[1] in Buffalo, […]

Jennifer Stevenson (born October 6, 1955, in Waukegan, Illinois)[1] is a Chicago-based, American fantasy and romance author who mixes romantic comedy with magical realist, regional (usually Chicago-set), working-class, and sex-positive storytelling.[2] She is an active member of the American feminist speculative fiction community. Stevenson has published both short stories and several novel series, most of […]

David Henry Sterry is an American author, actor/comic, activist and former sex worker. Sterry’s parents were immigrants from Newcastle, England. His paternal grandfather was a coal miner. His maternal grandfather was a professional soccer player, bicyclist, and boxer, as well as a suspected pedophile. He grew up in New Jersey; Birmingham, Alabama; Virginia, Minnesota; and […]