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Art School Orgy
This blatantly fictional account of David Hockney’s life as a post-graduate art student at the very start of the sick-sick-sixties features a mind-blowing onslaught of whippings, butt-plugs, enemas, wax dripping, bondage, vomiting, cross-dressing, branding, gang bangs, urination, tickling, pseudo-necrophila, enforced chastity, nymphomania, animal play & a zillion other perversions.
Rejected as too scandalous to touch by dozens of ‘independent’ publishers, Stewart Home’s outrageous historical shocker is at last presented to the world uncut & uncensored. All thanks to a record company who’ve never issued a book before but knew they had to publish this BDSM extravaganza after seeing a video the author made about it & posted to his YouTube channel!
Art School Orgy is the sickest novel ever published. It’s a literary anti-classic in the tradition of such pornographic masterpieces as the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days Of Sodom, Anne Desclos AKA Pauline Réage’s Story Of O & Samuel R. Delany’s Tides Of Lust.
Rejected as too scandalous to touch by dozens of ‘independent’ publishers, Stewart Home’s outrageous historical shocker is at last presented to the world uncut & uncensored. All thanks to a record company who’ve never issued a book before but knew they had to publish this BDSM extravaganza after seeing a video the author made about it & posted to his YouTube channel!
Art School Orgy is the sickest novel ever published. It’s a literary anti-classic in the tradition of such pornographic masterpieces as the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days Of Sodom, Anne Desclos AKA Pauline Réage’s Story Of O & Samuel R. Delany’s Tides Of Lust.
292 pages, Paperback
First published January 9, 2023
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Stewart Home
95 books288 followersStewart Home (born London 1963) is an English writer, satirist and artist. He is best known for novels such as the non-narrative "69 Things to Do With A Dead Princess" (2002), his re-imagining of the 1960s in "Tainted Love" (2005), and more recent books such as "She's My Witch" (2020) that use pulp and avant-garde tropes to parody conventional literature.
Home's unusual approach to writing is reflected in the readings he gives from his novels: he recites from memory, utilises ventriloquism, stands on his head and declaims his work and even shreds his own books.
Home's first book "The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War" (Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, London, 1988) is an underground art history sketching continuations of dadist and surrealist influences on post-World War II fringe radical art.
Home's first novel "Pure Mania" was published 1989 (Polygon Books), and details a violent neo-punk subculture. Unmistakenly postmodern but nfluenced by surrealism and the nouveau roman, it pushes the appropriation of pulp tropes and use of repetition found within historical avant-garde fiction to such an extreme that some critics mistook it for a piece of low-brow writing.
Home continued in much the same vein with his next four novels, starting with "Defiant Pose" (Peter Owen, 1991) and continuing with "Red London" (AK Press 1994), "Blow Job" (published in 1997 but written in 1994) and Slow Death (Serpent's Tail 1996).
All Home’s early fiction collages in large amounts of prose from a wide variety of sources – and while it is often close in spirit to the work of ‘postmodern extremists’ such as Kathy Acker, the appropriated material is much more heavily reworked than in the latter’s books.
The novels Home wrote after the mid-nineties featured less subcultural material than his earlier books and focus more obviously on issues of form and aesthetics. Home’s sixth novel "Come Before Christ And Murder Love" (Serpent's Tail 1997) featured a schizophrenic narrator whose personality changed every time he had an orgasm. This was the first novel Home wrote in the first person, and much of the fiction he wrote after this utilised the device of an unreliable first-person narrator.
"Cunt" (Do Not Press 1999) is a postmodern take on the picaresque novel. "69 Things to Do With A Dead Princess" (Canongate 2002) mixes porn with capsule reviews of dozens of obscure books as well as elaborate descriptions of stone circles, while in "Down and Out In Shoreditch & Hoxton" (Do Not Press 2004) every paragraph is exactly 100 words long. "Tainted Love" (Virgin Books) is based on the life of the author's mother, who was part of the London subcultural scene in the 1960s. "Memphis Underground" (Snow Books 2007) has a long conventional literary opening that is slowly unravelled.
Home’s 2010 novel "Blood Rites of the Bourgeois" (Book Works) is to date his only work written in the second person. The plot – as far as there is one - concerns an artist hacking the computers of London’s cultural elite to infect them with modified penis enlargement spam. Reviewing Home’s incredibly weird campus novel "Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane" (Penny-Ante Editions 2013) for The Guardian, Nicholas Lezard observes: “I think one of the great virtues of Home's work is the way it forces us to address our own complacency.”
"The 9 Lives of Ray The Cat Jones" (Test Centre 2014) is a fictional exploration of the life of one of the author's more infamous criminal relatives. "She's My Witch" (London Books 2020), is a love story exploring an unlikely relationship between a fitness instructor and a heroin addicted witch. "Art School Orgy" (New Reality Records, 2023) is a 'BDSM extravaganza'. Before this Home published his collected poems "SEND CA$H" (Morbid Books 2018) and a book about martial arts films "Re-Enter The Dragon: Genre Theory, Brucesploitation & The Sleazy Joys of Lowbrow Cinema" (Ledatape 2018).
Home's unusual approach to writing is reflected in the readings he gives from his novels: he recites from memory, utilises ventriloquism, stands on his head and declaims his work and even shreds his own books.
Home's first book "The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War" (Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, London, 1988) is an underground art history sketching continuations of dadist and surrealist influences on post-World War II fringe radical art.
Home's first novel "Pure Mania" was published 1989 (Polygon Books), and details a violent neo-punk subculture. Unmistakenly postmodern but nfluenced by surrealism and the nouveau roman, it pushes the appropriation of pulp tropes and use of repetition found within historical avant-garde fiction to such an extreme that some critics mistook it for a piece of low-brow writing.
Home continued in much the same vein with his next four novels, starting with "Defiant Pose" (Peter Owen, 1991) and continuing with "Red London" (AK Press 1994), "Blow Job" (published in 1997 but written in 1994) and Slow Death (Serpent's Tail 1996).
All Home’s early fiction collages in large amounts of prose from a wide variety of sources – and while it is often close in spirit to the work of ‘postmodern extremists’ such as Kathy Acker, the appropriated material is much more heavily reworked than in the latter’s books.
The novels Home wrote after the mid-nineties featured less subcultural material than his earlier books and focus more obviously on issues of form and aesthetics. Home’s sixth novel "Come Before Christ And Murder Love" (Serpent's Tail 1997) featured a schizophrenic narrator whose personality changed every time he had an orgasm. This was the first novel Home wrote in the first person, and much of the fiction he wrote after this utilised the device of an unreliable first-person narrator.
"Cunt" (Do Not Press 1999) is a postmodern take on the picaresque novel. "69 Things to Do With A Dead Princess" (Canongate 2002) mixes porn with capsule reviews of dozens of obscure books as well as elaborate descriptions of stone circles, while in "Down and Out In Shoreditch & Hoxton" (Do Not Press 2004) every paragraph is exactly 100 words long. "Tainted Love" (Virgin Books) is based on the life of the author's mother, who was part of the London subcultural scene in the 1960s. "Memphis Underground" (Snow Books 2007) has a long conventional literary opening that is slowly unravelled.
Home’s 2010 novel "Blood Rites of the Bourgeois" (Book Works) is to date his only work written in the second person. The plot – as far as there is one - concerns an artist hacking the computers of London’s cultural elite to infect them with modified penis enlargement spam. Reviewing Home’s incredibly weird campus novel "Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane" (Penny-Ante Editions 2013) for The Guardian, Nicholas Lezard observes: “I think one of the great virtues of Home's work is the way it forces us to address our own complacency.”
"The 9 Lives of Ray The Cat Jones" (Test Centre 2014) is a fictional exploration of the life of one of the author's more infamous criminal relatives. "She's My Witch" (London Books 2020), is a love story exploring an unlikely relationship between a fitness instructor and a heroin addicted witch. "Art School Orgy" (New Reality Records, 2023) is a 'BDSM extravaganza'. Before this Home published his collected poems "SEND CA$H" (Morbid Books 2018) and a book about martial arts films "Re-Enter The Dragon: Genre Theory, Brucesploitation & The Sleazy Joys of Lowbrow Cinema" (Ledatape 2018).
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March 8, 2023Blimey!
January 5, 2023
This is the best book I've read since I proofed my previous novel She's My Witch! It's so sick the publisher decided not to read it. However New Reality Records did get a proof reader to check it & he said there were no spelling mistakes, so they went ahead and issued it anyway! It's meant to leave you feeling sick and uncomfortable and asking yourself difficult questions like would I get a sex kick out of being wrapped up like an Egyptian mummy? Or is pseudo-necrophilia more chilling - it involves ice so yes - and thus more my thing?
January 6, 2023
Mixing humour and pornography is hard to pull off but Stewart plays a hole in one with his latest. The chapter titles alone would have stopped publishers wanting to touch it. It may be one of his most self-consciously funty works and I reckon it contains more HARDCORE SEX ACTION per page than the other novels (taken individually). This will certainly be a big hit with fans of Charles Platt's 'The Gas' or the works of Akbar del Piombo. Five thumbs up! Ouch.
May 25, 2023
Not a book I would usually admit to reading and defiantly one I would not recommend. Its not my kind of stuff but, after listening to a guy on the radio defending the right to free speech and reading material in the USA it is good that we live in a country that can still publish this. We can still make a choice here. I doubt it will corrupt me or change my habits but maybe it will help me understand a section of society I have little knowledge, contact with or desire to join.
Maybe I should find a book about how good the Tories are as I have little knowledge, contact with or desire to join them either?
Maybe I should find a book about how good the Tories are as I have little knowledge, contact with or desire to join them either?
February 6, 2023
From the opening introduction of “the rapscallion David Hockney….” through the next 280 or so pages, you may well find complete strangers looking over your shoulder (as I have whilst travelling on the London Underground) trying to read this eye-opening and sometimes eye-watering novel! The ending? Ha! Seek it out for yourself.
July 22, 2025
Wow, Wow, Wow.
What a great read satirical, funny and astute.
Meant to make you question your sensibilities and attitudes.
Published by New Reality Records - thank goodness.
What a great read satirical, funny and astute.
Meant to make you question your sensibilities and attitudes.
Published by New Reality Records - thank goodness.
April 8, 2025
As I stated to the author on another anti-socialist Nutwork, this book, more than any other, made me fart out loud, snigger and shoot snot out of nostrils in laughter, whilst taking the 96 tram home, much to the chagrin of the elderly migrants, tattooed punkers, teenage hippy-goths, insane Ice addicts, ciggie-smelling homeless and non-binary Social Media administrators on board. More cocks are devoured and post-ATM whippings are delivered in this book than anything ever written by Australian AntiFa Golden-Shower-Boy, Christos Tsiolkas. Unlike that miserable bore, Home has a slapstick and chapstick sense of humour, all the while demolishing the hidden power structures between the English Art, Banking and Military male-dominated establishments!! All he missed out on were the private grandad gangbangs of the Murd@ch family! WARNING: this book is stuffed to the rectum with hot, sweaty and stinky, bloke-on-bloke whipping, punching, fisting, spewing, gagging, swallowing, 'freezing' and 'figging' action!!All he missed out on was 'sounding'!! Some women join in on the action, but we are told not to notice 'them'. In a world where Milo Cocopopoplous, Bruce La Bruce and Dick Schmock can have creative careers of some sort, this book comes along and shits all over them - literally! Anyway after I finished this book I needed to take a hot shower and have a some colonic-cleansing wellness treatment by some Israeli hippies. What a relief! NOTE: This is my last review on this SHITE. I have 'defected' to thestorygraph.com as Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos, that very rich pro-MAGA-Trump testicle! Blech!!!! I feel like spewing!
August 24, 2024
A great and very unusual book. It is a surrealistic BDSM depiction of the life of a famous artist. I doubt it is true but wonder if its subject had read it. I could literally not put it down. It was so funny and features some gobsmacking chapter titles. It manages to be very touching in parts and features a lot of magical realism. This is not my usual read at all but do not regret picking it up at all. For sensitive readers the plot is exactly what the title says with BDSM scenes on almost every page. :D
August 8, 2023
Veeeeeeeeeeeel seks
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