{"id":5550,"date":"2022-06-21T21:18:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T02:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2022-06-21T21:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T02:18:49","slug":"happy-magazine-includes-updike-on-its-list-of-best-erotic-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/06\/21\/happy-magazine-includes-updike-on-its-list-of-best-erotic-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Magazine includes Updike on its list of best erotic novels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some of the titles on this list by Ria Pandey are actually short story collections, but no matter: here are 34 of the most titillating erotic works of fiction, according to the author. Updike’s Couples<\/em> made the cut, but many Updike fans might be thinking Rabbit Is Rich <\/em>worthy of the list as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of Updike’s plain-brown-wrapper company:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover<\/em>\u2014D.H. Lawrence
The Tropic of Cancer<\/em>\u2014Henry Miller
Story of O<\/em>\u2014Anne Desclos\/Pauline R\u00e9age
Emmanuelle<\/em>\u2014Emmanuelle Arsan
Portnoy’s Complaint<\/em>\u2014Philip Roth
Delta of Venus<\/em>\u2014Ana\u00efs Nin
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty<\/em>\u2014Anne Rice
Lust and Other Stories<\/em>\u2014Susan Minot
Vox<\/em>\u2014Nicholson Baker
The Thorn Birds<\/em>\u2014Colleen McCullough
The Sexual Life of Catherine M.<\/em>\u2014Catherine Millet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of Couples<\/em>, Pandey writes, “Couples\u00a0<\/em>details the lives of ten married couples living in a New England community who create a sex cult. While it sounds simple on the surface level,\u00a0Couples\u00a0<\/em>embarks on an intense emotional and psychological meditation on the nature of love, sex, and commitment. A review by Time<\/em><\/a> describes the events of the novel as such: \u201cTrapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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