“What’s this movie about again?” Allen asks me as we settle into the seats at the theater. I lie to him for the third time and say that it’s a German documentary about women artists. “No Nazis?” he asks. “No Nazis,” I assure him. By the time he sees the bloody tampon it’s already too late.
"I can only wish that the young women who think Wetlands sounds intriguing will head to the erotica section of the nearest women's bookstore first." — Sallie Tisdale, in the Times on Sunday. [NYT]
Wetlands, Charlotte Roche's tale of anal trauma, will finally be available in the US this week. Follow the jump for one editor's take (spoilers — of both the plot and your appetite — included).
There has been a lot of talk about Charlotte Roche's Wetlands and whether it is, as the author says, "not feminist in a political sense, but instead feminism of the body, that has to do with anxiety and repression and the fear that you stink," or whether it's just the literary equivalent of a Sarah Silverman act, all…
This morning, Jessica wrote about the New York Times coverage of the German novel Feuchtgebiete (known in English as Wetlands), though it won't be available in translation until next year. I'll bet you thought you'd have to wait until then to read some German smut! Well, luckily for you, I majored in German lit and…
Meet Charlotte Roche, Germany's Erica Jong for the aughts. The former TV presenter's new novel, Wetlands, is causing causing quite the hubbub in Germany for its frank discussion of scatology and anatomy from the mouth of its 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel. Roche, a self-proclaimed feminist, was inspired to write …
