Annie Sprinkle is a former porn star with a Ph.D, a photographer, an author, and self-described “ecosexual artist.” I was her editor in the mid-1980s when she was a columnist for Stag magazine. Annie is now a character in Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography, and that’s why I sent her a galley of the book. Here’s what she had to say:
“Thank heavens Robert Rosen has documented his, mine, and your wacky, tacky, rich and fun smut-rag history. Beaver Street is a deliciously delightful read, a fabulous book. He captures the complexities, ironies, and color of the times when sex magazines ruled. As a girl who has been round the Beaver Street block, I can attest that this is the raunchy truth, extremely well told.”
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The Daily Beaver20 Years to LifeSeptember 6, 2010
Mark David Chapman is again up for parole, as he is every two years. Some people consider me an “expert” on the subject, and I have indeed researched the hell out of it. (See Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon.) Consequently, I am quoted.
“A Lucid and Entertaining Read”September 3, 2010
I continue to be encouraged by the reaction of people who’ve been reading the Beaver Street galleys. The running commentary below is from Darius James, author of Negrophobia (St. Martin’s Griffin) and That’s Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss ’Tude (St. Martin’s Griffin).
I’m lovin’ this so far. I SERIOUSLY think this should be a movie. The more I read the better it gets. Very insightful. Especially like "The Secret History." Funny how so much of this dovetails into my own world. I’m three-quarters through with the book. I have something like 40 pages to go. Real interesting about Traci Lords. Beaver Street is a lucid and entertaining read. Made me want to jump back in the porn game myself if there was one. Now I want to read Beaver Street II. |
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