Bad Sex Is Good

by Jane DeLynn

paperback

205 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Jane DeLynn is the author of the novels Leash, Don Juan in the Village, Real Estate (a New York Times Book Review “Notable Book of the Year”), In Thrall, Some Do, as well as the collection Bad Sex Is Good. Authors she’s been compared to include Proust, Salinger, Jane Austen, Rabelais, Swift, Oscar Wilde, Proust, Helene Cixious, and Edgar Allan Poe, Aristophanes, Euripedes, & Woody Allen. She was a correspondent in Saudi Arabia for Mirabella and Rolling Stone during the Gulf War, and has published articles, essays & stories in a number of anthologies & magazines in the US & abroad, including The New York Times, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, The Paris Review, and The New York Observer. Her musical theater works have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Encompass Music Theater, and Theater for the New City. . Her work has been translated into German, Norwegian, Spanish, Japanese, and French. She splits her time between New York City and Long Island.

Reviews

[Renee Pelletier]

Really miserable stuff. Her theoretical take on sex and particularly lesbian sex seems to be informed solely by her experiences which she mistakes for universal. Unpleasant gender analysis.