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News Wed Jun 24 2009
Chicago Authors Know How to Write a Threesome
The Guardian asked novelist Ewan Morrison, author of Menage, to pick the Top Ten Literary Threesomes. His list includes not one, but two Chicago authors. In at #1, the Top Literary Threesome Ever, is Oak Park native Ernest Hemingway with The Garden of Eden, a novel that "tells the story of an author, his adventurous wife, and the psycho-sexual games they play while sharing a young woman. It is largely held to be autobiographical." University of Chicago alum Susan Sontag comes in at #7 with The Volcano Lover, a historical fiction revolving around Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma and Vice Admiral Horation Nelson. Apparently, Chicago authors know how to write the sexy. (Of course, we already knew that.)
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Pete / June 25, 2009 12:26 PM
It's quite a stretch calling Hemingway and Sontag "Chicago authors", based solely on their relatively brief associations with the city. Was Saul Bellow a Montreal author? Was Theodore Dreiser a Terre Haute author?