Lady Chatterley’s Brother Lady Chatterley's Brother. The first ebook in the new TQC Long Essays series,  called “an exciting new project” by Chad Post of Open Letter and Three Percent. Why can't Nicholson Baker write about sex? And why can Javier Marias? We investigate why porn is a dead end, and why seduction paves the way for the sex writing of the future. Read an excerpt.
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Translate This Book! Ever wonder what English is missing? Called "a fascinating  read" by The New Yorker, Translate This Book! brings together over 40 of the top translators, publishers, and authors to tell us what books need to be published in English. Get it on Kindle.
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The Summer of Genji . . .
. . . is off to an awesome start.
There’s still plenty of time to join. (Heck, you could completely blow the first two weeks and still only be 162 pages in the hole–that’s what, one night’s dedicated reading?)
For my own part, I’ll be chiming in once I’ve subdued this matter of 300 pages of Javier Marias.
And thanks to Bookforum for the friendly shoutout of our project.
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