Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

Suicide Blonde may be the tale of Jesse, a sexual explorer in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. In deep love with an emotionally remote man that is bisexual used as a caretaker for a Boschian figure known as Madame Pig, Jesse seeks meaning and stimulation. Her foil is Madison, effective and stunning and poisonous, whom makes her living giving and doubting the dreams of other people. The novel has memorable fisting scene that I’ve never ever quite had the oppertunity to shake since reading it at age thirteen, and a web page for web page wide range of astonishing, illuminating brutality and initial seriously considered the life span for the human anatomy.

Written once the writer had been an adolescent and published in English beneath the semi-anonymous title “Melissa P.” in 2003, this brief, immersive novel is styled once the journal of a fourteen-year-old Italian woman who glides in some sort of trance from her very first intimate experience to increasingly debauched experiments with sadomasochism, group intercourse, and anonymous encounters with men and women. Told having a singularity that is lonely it is a tale of hunger for experience: “I would like to feel my heart melt, wish to see my icy stalactites shatter and plunge as a river of passion and beauty.”

Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie

Printed in three handsomely-bound volumes, Lost Girls is just a graphic novel loosely organized around an account concerning the Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy, Alice In Wonderland’s Alice, and Peter Pan’s Wendy encountering one another in a Austrian hotel regarding the eve of World War I. (more…)