Astrid Daley’s profiles on “Occult Sleaze,” “Swinging Sleaze,” and the tawdry taboo stuff that sleaze literature fell into during the 1970s. A useful appendix reveals the actual names behind the pseudonyms, revealing both the established and fly-by-night sleaze paperback operators. The bizarre glories of cover artists Robert Bonfils, Gene Bilbrew, Eric Stanton, Bill Ward and others are seen throughout in lurid color. We do get some history, and some pretty entertaining biographies of various writers and publishers, but totally worth it for being as close as Im ever likely to get to Clyde Allisons James Bond parodies featuring the intrepid Agent 0008. In “My Life as a Pornographer,” science fiction legend Robert Silverberg divulges how he and other authors learned their sleaze craft. More picture than history (and thats just fine with me), Sin-A-Rama provides an overview of the era of the sex paperback. Sleaze paperbacks sold by the million, and their unorthodox content provoked FBI investigations, court battles, and prison sentences for the crime of “obscenity.” Earl Kemp, the notorious Greenleaf Books editor, provides an insider’s perspective. Sin-A-Rama celebrates the near-forgotten world of erotic paperbacks from the 1960s when sex acts were described with code words, writers used pseudonyms, and publishers hid behind mail drop addresses. Gertzman, John Gilmore, Michael Hemmingson, Lydia Lunch, Lynn Munroe, and Robert Silverberg. “In this entertaining and still-stimulating collection, the ways in which the various authors dealt with their work emerge with radical variety, just as different individuals treat their more basic instincts.” -David Cotner, LA WeeklyĬontributions by Stephen J.
In all its forbidden glory, period “sleaze” erotica receives an investigation into the medium with extensive interviews and cover art.
0 kommentar(er)
