Casual sexual encounters decreased during the Covid-19 pandemic for obvious reasons, but that doesn't mean sexual desire did. Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of one of The New York Times's most anticipated books of 2021, Libertie, summed up these feelings of carnal frustration best in her new short story, Orgy.
"There's sex as it happens in the real world, and then there's sex as it is mediated, which would lead us to believe that only conventionally hot, young people in certain locales are having sex."
Readers meet Nessa during the height of the pandemic when she feels lost, unwanted, and mostly just horny. All of her former hookups are either coupled up or currently ghosting her, and finding someone new is less accessible than it used to be. When she's invited to an underground party in downtown New York City - subject line: "orgy" - she knows she has to go. As...
"There's sex as it happens in the real world, and then there's sex as it is mediated, which would lead us to believe that only conventionally hot, young people in certain locales are having sex."
Readers meet Nessa during the height of the pandemic when she feels lost, unwanted, and mostly just horny. All of her former hookups are either coupled up or currently ghosting her, and finding someone new is less accessible than it used to be. When she's invited to an underground party in downtown New York City - subject line: "orgy" - she knows she has to go. As...
- 7/21/2021
- by Lauren Harano
- Popsugar.com
The Lenny Letter, the feminist website and newsletter created by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner in 2015, is, as was widely expected and reported this week, will shut down today, the co-creators confirm.
The closure is addressed in an open letter posted on the site and credited to Dunham, Konner and editorial and creative director Molly Elizalde. “While there’s no one reason for our closure,” they write, “this change allows for growth and a shift in perspectives — ours and yours.” (Read the entire statement below).
“Be prepared for a day of unmitigated nostalgia!,” Dunham tweeted this morning.
The (once) twice-weekly newsletter is reported to have peaked with about 500,000 subscribers, though numbers dwindled at least through the past year.
The newsletter-website was a holdover from the professional partnership of Girls co-creators Dunham and Konner (their current HBO comedy Camping will apparently be their last). The duo split last June, with Konner...
The closure is addressed in an open letter posted on the site and credited to Dunham, Konner and editorial and creative director Molly Elizalde. “While there’s no one reason for our closure,” they write, “this change allows for growth and a shift in perspectives — ours and yours.” (Read the entire statement below).
“Be prepared for a day of unmitigated nostalgia!,” Dunham tweeted this morning.
The (once) twice-weekly newsletter is reported to have peaked with about 500,000 subscribers, though numbers dwindled at least through the past year.
The newsletter-website was a holdover from the professional partnership of Girls co-creators Dunham and Konner (their current HBO comedy Camping will apparently be their last). The duo split last June, with Konner...
- 10/19/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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