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Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks' extreme explorations of mind and body. In these poems, the speaker trembles on the verge of discovery, pushing her physical limits through practices of pain, permission, and pleasure. But her inability to negotiate the unspoken el...

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What makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling, malleable, and persistent?

Fiction. Winner of the 2016 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and Winner of the 2016 ReLit Award for Fiction. In prose by turns haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks' ONE HUNDRED DAYS OF RAIN enumerates an unnamed narrator's encounters with that most quotidian of subjects: rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator must rebuild a life from the bottom up. As she wakes each day to encounter Vancouver's sky and city streets...

Sex, once the great unspoken, is now regularly commodified and prepackaged for wide consumer consumption, on TV, in films, on billboards. In this context in which nothing is shocking -- no boundary too sacred to cross -- what does sex mean, particularly to those born under these conditions? Carnal Nation collects stories about sex by an exciting new generation of writers who boldly push the narrative envelope. These are not your typical bump-a...

We all remember, with a shudder, the worst jobs we ever had: cashier, waiter, parking lot attendant. But what about having to wear winter clothes in the middle of a heatwave to work in an ice-cube factory? Or enduring the tedium of the phone-sex lines, bringing men to orgasm while reading Ms. Magazine? Or working in a beet factory, having to identify fancy beets from extra-fancy ones on the conveyor belt, the blood from your fingertips mixing ...

What makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling, malleable, and persistent?