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'Sex With Strangers' Inspiration: Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, the act of sex and the art of writing about it.

2/1/2017

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“I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.” ​
  Henry Miller loved writing about sex; the intimacy of the act, the frantic, groping passion, the afterglow of laying in a tussle of sheets, your legs intertwined with your lover's, the smell of a woman's sweat soaking into her hair. Sex wasn't a shocking taboo to Miller, instead it was as much a part of life as breathing or writing and deserved the same level or artistic scrutiny. His famous and famously-banned works such as "Tropic of Cancer", "Tropic of Capricorn", and "The Rosy Crucifixion", contained beautifully-crafted passages about passionate acts, but to the post-war puritanical Americans they were pure smut and considered so shocking they were banned in the US until the early 1960's.    
 If Henry Miller "wrote" about sex, then Anaïs Nin Wrote. About. Sex. The first and greatest Western female erotica writer, the French-born Cuban beauty poured her very soul into her writings about sex, lust, love, and desire.  As a teenager in Paris she came across a series of tattered old erotica paperbacks, and devoured them as if they were food for her starving sexuality. Of these stories, she wrote "One by one, I read these books, which were completely new to me. I had never read erotic literature in America… They overwhelmed me. I was innocent before I read them, but by the time I had read them all, there was nothing I did not know about sexual exploits… I had my degree in erotic lore."
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Nin's words are lush and fragrant, her sentences beautifully constructed. 
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“When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.” 
(Goddamn.)
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  It is no surprise that when these two deeply passionate writers met, they sparked one of the 20th century's most notorious and beautifully captured artistic affairs.  Their love letters are the writings of legend, and their sex.........well.......its a safe assumption that they nearly lit their bed on fire.
    'Sex With Strangers' Ethan and Olivia share a love of words and writing, and while they may not be the modern day Henry and Anaïs, they certainly had the sexual appetites of their literary predecessors.  
   Next up--the affair of Henry and Anaïs, and the opening weekend reviews of Ethan and Olivia.

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'Sex with strangers' inspiration: The film 'Atonement' and the best love scene ever filmed in a Library

2/1/2017

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  Hello my literary dumplings, we're thrilled to kick off our utterly spectacular 2017 season with the intriguing, thought-provoking, and flat out sexy show, 'Sex With Strangers.'  We chose the show not just because its insightful and sly, but because it captures the intense attraction that blossoms over a perfectly crafted, sensual sentence.
​ The story of a gifted writer named Olivia who encounters the famed sex-blogger and memoirist Ethan at a snowy writer's retreat, the first hint of romance in 'Sex With Strangers' occurs when Ethan quotes one of Olivia's delicate, thoughtful passages from her book back to her.  That Ethan remembers the lines from Olivia's critically acclaimed but poorly-selling book, words from her mind now being repeated back to her, inflected with his lustful growl ignite in Olivia something she didn't know she possessed.

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    In the 2008 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's perfect novel, 'Atonement,' two childhood friends Cecilia and Robbie, now nursing deep crushes on one another spend a sweltering summer day in Cecilia's family's prim English estate. In a terrible, beautiful moment of passion Robbie writes Cecilia a note, delivered by her sister, containing one sparse, exquisite, heated sentence.  We will not spoil for you this delicious surprise, but trust us when we say it weakened our knees. 
   After spending hours in a formal dinner, simmering in the heat and the possibility of stealing just two minutes away from the crushing propriety of their lives, they meet in the library to "talk." Or not. What ensues is one of the most passionate, gorgeously shot love scenes we've ever watched, and when Cecilia's foot lifts from her shoe, and their lips touched, we swooned.
   Words are powerful, sexual creatures wrapping themselves into potent sentences that can intoxicate and move a person to madness.  The whisper of a love note or the power of a single verse can change everything. And the sex that follows........may we all be so lucky to be moved to desire by but a few words.

'Sex with Strangers' premieres this Friday night at 7:30.  
​Bring a date.
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