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October 28, 2015 |

Touch Me (an excerpt)

Apollonia Fox

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this

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Jonathan Franzen's Purity: Driving Mister Franzen photo

October 27, 2015 | Nonfiction

Jonathan Franzen's Purity: Driving Mister Franzen

Sean Kilpatrick

Over the course of being mounted by this tome, I took up a pipe, drank scotch from an airplane toilet, consigned to rubbing myself down with strange bleaches, minced any sense of diet intentionally diabetic by an assortment of binge ate junk...

2002: An Internet Odyssey photo

October 27, 2015 | Nonfiction

2002: An Internet Odyssey

Fiona Helmsley

I spent a considerable amount of my time online drooling on myself, arguing with the Courtney Love haters who camped out on her website, and searching for low- effort ways to get off the pills. None existed.

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October 27, 2015 |

Foul Balls

David Ezekiel Kruse

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this