Producer and exploitation pioneer Harry Novak has died. Daily Grindhouse remembers Novak with a collection of trailers from his films. Dougsploitation has an overview of Novak’s career well-illustrated with film posters. The Los Angeles Times has a brief obituary.
Graveyard Shift Sisters shares Kinitra Brooks’ “close examination of the books of Tananarive Due, her African Immortals series that centers around the main character Jessica Jacobs-Wolde and L.A. Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend series focus on Damali Richards and discusses how speculative fiction is ripe for transformative work on Black female […]
This week The Projection Booth looks at William Friedkin’s Cruising (1979), with discussion of the controversy surrounding the film and interviews Don Scardino, Randy Jurgensen, & Travis Mathews about the Sixties and Seventies New York, making the film and making Interior. Leather. Bar.
“The Fifty Shades Generator is a breakthrough in erotic fiction. At the click of a button, it generates world-class literature based on a pre-defined vocabulary.” Click away here. (via @vaginalfantasy)
At The Cut, Maureen O’Connor interviews Christie Simes and Alara Branwyn, authors of dinosaur and monster erotica like In The Velociraptor’s Nest and Taken By The Triceratops. (via @filmclassics)
Jezebel has a snippet from The Velociraptor’s Nest, one of a series of dinosaur/human romance books, and, yes, there is a sex scene. There is also triceratops erotica. Geekologie has more about author Christie Sims.
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