Sexual Expeditions

Issue 26: Lynne Tillman is Provocative and Daring in Her Novel, "Weird Fucks"

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Lynne Tillman’s “American Genius” is everywhere lately. Every book store that I’ve visited since perhaps the end of last year has it on display. As it would, it prompted me to do a bit of research on the author as well as the books she’d written. Weird Fucks stood out to me, and I wanted to explore what this book was all about especially since the title is so provocative. There were plenty of questions I had regarding intimacy and this book, although it doesn’t necessarily suggest any answers, it does put a big focus on the superficiality that some relationships can actualize.

The title, although provocative, touches on a conversation that for many can be unfamiliar. To write so openly on a taboo topic such as sex, and to describe it in such a blunt way, had me highly invested as a reader. I was curious to know where the conversation would lead. How many of us have had strange sexual encounters, but perhaps felt limited as to what …