Do Me: Sex Tales from Tin House
by Win McCormack, Lee Montgomery, Holly McArthur
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Read in April, 2008
In a story titled “The Anthropology of Sex,” a 37-year-old woman broods over a long-ago affair with her literature professor — the man’s wife happened to be 37 at the time — and commemorates the guilty event by imagining that her own husband is having an affair. This sounds like a recipe for a stilted literary outing, but in writer Martha McPhee’s hands, the layers of the story slide together effortlessly like sheets of silk. Still, it’s not an erotic story, and not at all what one...more
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Read in February, 2008
Aside from the cover, this was a lot less steamy than I'd anticipated. All the same, it's a decent collection on a theme--sex as love, as romance, as power, as coping mechanism, as social anthropology.
This is a collection of stories and essays, but no distinction is made for which is which. I suppose it doesn't matter much--good writing is good writing--but fiction and essay are evaluated differently in my mind; distance between reader and author is blurred. The anthology is arranged al...more
This is a collection of stories and essays, but no distinction is made for which is which. I suppose it doesn't matter much--good writing is good writing--but fiction and essay are evaluated differently in my mind; distance between reader and author is blurred. The anthology is arranged al...more
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I haven't finished this yet, but I am about 3/4 of the way through. I have basically decided that I really love this anthology (barring that the last five or six are not disasters). I can't speak for Tin House; however, I don't feel like this anthology was necessarily meant to be "steamy" so I can see how someone who expected that might be disappointed. These stories are about sex or intimacy in some format though, rather than it being about describing the act of, they generally focus ...more
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Diana Wagman gave a great review of this book in the Los Angeles Times a couple of months ago and said the title is misleading, that it's not about sex but love. I go to Barnes & Noble now and then and look on the shelf where it's suppose to be but it's not there. I asked a clerk to look, once, and felt funny about saying the title. Do you have "Do Me"? Just feels funny.
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Read in March, 2008
Eh (or as Jess and Megan would say, meh). I couldn't really get into these stories. None of them really jumped out at me as being particularly interesting.
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Read in July, 2008
recommended to nicole by:
someone at Tin House, obviously
I thought this was going to be more interesting. I'm not really interested in far-out fictional accounts of sex. If you are, this book may be for you.
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I'd kinda written this one off, but Melissa's review made me a believer!
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Read in September, 2008
BORRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
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I would read anything Miranda July wrote. No joke.
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