Dalla segnalazione di uno strano pezzo di body art, ho trovato sul sito di Blacklisted Journalist The River of No Regrets, nuovo racconto erotico di Tsaurah Litzky. La scrittrice ha partecipato piu’ volte all’antologia Best American Erotica, di cui l’edizione 2005 era recensita stamattina dal settimanale Metro Santa Cruz. Una lettura interessante per capire un genere che, come il noir, sente bene il polso della storia.

Dall’intervista di Boston Phoenix a Susie Bright

Q: Tell me about this year’s Best American Erotica book, which was just published, and the process of choosing the stories.

A: It’s changed a lot over the years. Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. I used to beg people to write. I suppose the big secret about BAE is that it’s literary fiction, with very strong, compelling sex as part of the characters and narratives, but it’s not gratuitous, and it’s not predictable, and that’s what I look for. I also look for something that will reflect a certain Zeitgeist about what’s happening in the world. Like, you could put this book in a time capsule, and then when the Martians come a century from now and find it, they’ll go, “Hmm, so that’s what they were up to.” I look for that feeling, and it’s always there, and it’s one of the funnest parts, because of course the authors aren’t on the telephone with each other saying, “Let’s all write about vampires this year.”

Q: But those trends surface?

A: Themes surface. When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world. Both times we’ve gone to war — I didn’t notice it the first time, because I just thought it was people being generally kinky, which has been a trend, but the second time we went to war, I went, hey, wait a minute! Why am I getting all these stories about men who want to give it all up, be submissive, be ravaged, have somebody else do everything, have them be the one who gives up control? Now I realize that’s a wartime-erotica trend.

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