Supervert News 2005
Supervert's New Book: Necrophilia Variations
2005.10.31
Supervert is very proud to announce the publication of a new book called Necrophilia Variations. Several years in the making, Necrophilia Variations takes its place alongside Supervert's previous book Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish as an exploration of the furthest reaches of perverse behavior.
Written in a style that ranges from the lugubrious to the ludicrous — from purple prose to black humor — Necrophilia Variations uses literary means to probe a peculiar conjunction of death, desire, and deviance. Eros, the book asks, is naturally drawn to beauty, and yet nothing would seem to be less inherently beautiful than a cadaver. How is it that a necrophile comes to find beauty in what most people would find repugnant? How does he come to desire that which would seem to be intrinsically undesirable?
Necrophilia Variations is available today for those who care to order direct from Supervert using PayPal or Kagi. It should also be available on Amazon within the week, and at select independent bookstores soon.
Happy Halloween...
Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish in the News
2005.10.08
At last week's Art and Politics of Netporn conference in Amsterdam, author Mark Dery (who writes frequently about cyberculture) gave a lecture titled "Sex Organs Sprout Everywhere: The Sublime and the Grotesque in Web Porn." In it, he discussed how the internet has gotten so freakish that it makes Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish sound prophetic: "Things are getting weird out there, so much so that imaginary obsessions such as exophilia, the 'abnormal attraction [to] beings from worlds beyond earth' that is the subject of the underground novel Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish, are starting to sound downright plausible." (P.S. Be sure to view the comments to read some very kind comments by Mark Dery about Supervert. Thanks, Mark!)
It must have been a good lecture, because even Boing-Boing picked up on the part about Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish.
Meanwhile, a humorous story at DailyStupid.com envisions a guy bumping into an alien while on his way to a store to purchase Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish. And a Hungarian site writes something or other about Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish that, in the absence of automatic translation software, Supervert couldn't really decipher beyond the interesting fact that "Supervert" is evidently "Supervertovoj" in Hungarian. If anyone has a clue, please let us know.
For more reviews of Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish, see its Reviews page.
RealityStudio.org Updated
2005.08.26
Supervert has updated its William S. Burroughs fan site, RealityStudio.org. In addition to technical improvements similar to those that marked the redesign of supervert.com, there is new content — including a Burroughs Multimedia section!
Supervert.com Rebuilt and Redesigned
2005.08.07
Supervert.com has been redesigned and rigorously rebuilt. In addition to the deliberately simple, neo-Bauhaus design, here's a brief list of the changes: there is now an online sample of Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish; BLAM! CDs are no longer for sale; Coke Christ, Superlister, and the skyscraper banners have all been deprecated; the site now uses "clean" urls; it is now a class B no-www site; it uses the Google search engine rather than a proprietary one; shoppers may now use PayPal to purchase books; and all email functions (contact, email page, subscribe) now use some snazzy programming that works (on most browsers) without causing the entire page to refresh.
If you happen to see anything malfunction, or if you have any comments that you'd like to make about the new version of the site, please do not hesitate to contact Supervert.
Finally, Supervert is gearing up for a major product announcement. Further details will appear here in the coming month or so...
New Pick: Fuck Me Doll
2005.06.01
There's a new pick: Queen Adreena's Fuck Me Doll.
Supervert has obtained the rights to the domain name FlowersOfEvil.org. It points to FleursDuMal.org.
Big things coming soon....
This and That
2005.05.01
Supervert's William Burroughs site, RealityStudio.org, was updated and now includes a section called Your Education: Dreams about William S. Burroughs.
And the PervScan rebuild continues to occupy much time...
PervScan Rebuilt
2005.04.01
PervScan.com has undergone a massive overhaul. Most of the work was behind-the-scenes, but there are also some modest new features. If you haven't visited PervScan for a while, go have a look!
Banners and Buttons
2005.03.01
Want to add a Supervert banner to your site? Want to link to PervScan.com? Want to tell the world about Supervert's William Burroughs site, RealityStudio.org? Supervert now provides four different sizes of banner graphics for half a dozen of its products and sites. Head on over to the Banners section and grab yourself some graphics.
Angelhaunt has added Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish to its Recommended Books. Angelhaunt, incidentally, is a very interesting web site featuring the writings and drawings of a person who has battled schizophrenia for many years. Supervert hasn't read Angelhaunt's books, but some of the short stories offered online are brilliant — somewhere between the schizoid madness of Artaud and the paranoid simplicity of Kafka. Check out the Cult of Clinton and The Members of the Circus and a few others while you're there.
Currin in Español
2005.02.01
Thanks to translator Nadeshda Rangel Flores, Supervert's essays on contemporary painter John Currin are now available in Spanish. Check out Boomerang en Español and Desnudos de John Currin.
There's (finally) a new Supervert Pick: William T. Vollmann's Rising Up and Rising Down.
Supervert also posted a fascinating interview with William S. Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris to its Burroughs site, RealityStudio.org.
More Baudelaire
2005.01.01
An extensive new volume of translations — Roy Campbell's 1952 Poems of Baudelaire — has been added to Supervert's Baudelaire site, fleursdumal.org.
Congratulations to the many winners of Supervert's annual December contest. NOTE: almost a dozen winners have failed to respond to their prize notification emails. If you use Yahoo, HotMail, or another free email service, be sure to check your spam or bulk mail folders in case your prize notification was caught in your email provider's spam filters.
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