me --> writing elsewhere: springtime for harpies! edition

Blackthorn Fairy*

Here's what I've been "writing elsewhere" since the 5th of February. Yep. It's really been that long!

At the corner of your eye:

• I wrote a joint review of In Search of Gay America (1989) and Art and Sex in Greenwich Village (2007).
• I reviewed Seanan McGuire's new Discount Armageddon (2012). 
• I shared a list of books read, not yet reviewed (sensing a theme at all?).
• I posted the second episode of Ivor the Engine (1958), a children's television show from England. Oliver Postgate wins the things.
• I reviewed six books at once in a pre-vacation round-up on subjects ranging from last year's best sex writing to the nature of identity in the twenty-first century.
• I shared a list of ten books purchased but not yet read (randomly chosen from the many titles on our shelves!).
• I reviewed The Hound of Conscience (1981), a history of English conscientious objectors of the First World War.
• Also Bachelors and Bunnies (2011), a history of gender relations as articulated in the pages of Playboy through the 1970s.

At The Pursuit of Harpyness (excluding cross-posts):

• I linked to my friend Natalie's interview about Clover Adams at LibraryThing.
• Tuesday Teasers #6 (3 Apr 12).
• I mused about getting angry on behalf of the people we love.
• Following a conversation with author Rachel Hills, I asked what makes sex "good"?
• I shared the digital components to Chicago History Museum's "Out in Chicago" exhibition.
• I bitched about the breathless coverage of the new erotic novel Fifty Shades of Gray. (Seriously? We have to learn all over again for the first time women do enjoy sex/porn/reading?)
• I noted an interesting article in the most recent Bitch magazine about what gay men can gain from feminist thought and activism.
• I investigated sexual flavor strips so you don't have to, and asked what we gain and lose from having such a product marketed to us.
• Tuesday Teasers #5 (14 Feb 12). 
• I reviewed Samhita Mukhopadhyay's Outdated (2012).

Hope y'all are enjoying a long and fruitful spring. Can't believe we're heading back into baseball season already here in Boston ... that time of year when you have to calculate the options for your commute home based on the relative number of Red Sox fans crawling around the neighborhood!

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*Before you ask, yes. I was completely besotted with Cicely Mary Barker's flower fairies as a wee one. In my defenseI think I assumed they all behaved a bit like Tiki from The Fairy Rebel.