Mistress Matisse

Books I’m Reading Lately There’s been Sex At Dawn of course, of which much has already been said. I’m enjoying it very much, and I recomm...

What am I reading lately? A little of everything… I bought, but have not read yet, this one: In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of ...

This blog post will not make much sense to you if you didn ’t read my column last week , and the blog post that went with it . You also nee...

It is Thomas Cromwell’s fault I have a bunch of new books. What? Yes, I know he’s been dead for almost 500 years. Cromwell being the sort ...

From The Bookcase I reflected today that the word bookcase might just become an anachronism in my lifetime, mightn’t it? One doesn’t need a ...

What I'm Reading While I was in Bellingham over the weekend, Elvis and I stopped in Village Books and I picked up a couple of things. I...

I meant to answer some letters today, but I was endlessly tweaking my column right up to deadline. So instead, just some pop culture notes a...

Here's a confession that reveals me as either an optimist, or a masochist, I'm not sure which: I just read the newest Anita Blake bo...

Recent Reading List Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All...

I love popular-science author Mary Roach's writing so much. If you have not read Stiff and Bonk, you're missing out. (Her other bo...

Literary Masochism I recently finished the Dan Simmons novel, Drood. And that is no mean feat, my friends, even for a devoted (and fast) re...

Am I Or Not? Cool reader Trix recently alerted me to the fact that I was quoted in this book: Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Powe...

Today I'm off to spend a few days with a friend, so while I finish preparing for that, here's a book I've been reading that I en...

I’d like to make some clarification about my stance on “sex work in the news” stories. It’s one thing to comment at length on certain types ...

More book stuff... I'm reading Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers , and it's interesting. I liked Blink a great deal, and Tipping...

What I'm Reading For an early birthday gift, I just received this : Proust Was A Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer. From Publishers Weekl...

Today, a book recommendation. If you haven’t read this already, you should. It used to be shocking - now it’s a classic book of American sex...

Reading List I had recently gotten into the habit of reading almost all non-fiction. Especially when I don't have a lot of time to sit d...

I don't have a real post for today, and you know who is to blame for that? Mary Roach. I can hardly stop reading her latest book, Bonk: ...

Wednesday Night: Well, I was trying to write and post a different update this evening, with kinky letters and stuff, but I was utterly stym...