Of Huge Clown Feet and Sex Chairs
April 17, 2008 § 6 Comments
We’re happy to throw up a big huzzah for Brevity contributor Lori Jakiela (Brevity 11) who pretty much stole the show in Sunday’s New York Times with her Modern Love essay:
April 13, 2008
The Plain, Unmarked Box Arrived
By LORI JAKIELA
THE night we ordered the sex chair, we’d been drinking. Not a lot, but enough to make a sex chair seem like an investment, like junk bonds or an I.R.A.
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READ the whole essay here: The Plain, Unmarked Box Arrived
or dig out your Sunday paper before the recycling truck arrives. Wonderful stuff.
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This was the first “Modern Love” essay I’ve enjoyed in a long while — honest, funny, beautifully-written, and not grounded in that hyper-New-Yorkiness that afflicts too many of these essays.
I met Daniel Jones, the fellow who edits this column, at NonfictioNow. He was a champ.
I’m a sucker for any essay that talks about love and sex so honestly, without romantic pretensions or pornographic cliches (anybody else notice that when students write about sex, the word “thrust” comes up way too often?). It’s funny how sex is something that’s part of almost everyone’s life, but so few people can write about it as well as Ms. Jakiela.
That essay cracked me up – I’m so glad she’s a Brevity writer, too!
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