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British writer Angela Carter was a creative trailblazer. And in 1979, she published a book attempting the near impossible, claiming Sade –pornographer and literary bad boy – as a proto-feminist.
On Jan. 27, 1977, a St. Louis judge issued an order closing the Stardust Club. It was not contested by co-owner Aimee Charles, who under the name Evelyn West performed
"A letter can be preserved—read, re-read, studied, carried with one, cherished. It is not ephemeral, like a telephone call—quickly done, and just as easily forgotten."
It’s a spring day on Oracabessa Bay’s secluded Button Beach, and the sun is liberally tossing its morning diamonds on a breeze-ruffled sea. A man of a certain age —
John Galbraith Simmons reviews Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History.”...