Supervert News 2011
Supervert is an alias — a nom de plume — a moniker for an individual — a corporation — a brand name. Supervert offers you a unique combination of intellect and deviance. Perversity for your brain. Vanguard aesthetics, novel pathologies.
To the Righteous Ones Who Masturbate Blissfully beneath the Blanket of Their Perfections
2011.12.01
Win a free book. (Sorry, contest is over.) It has become a Supervert tradition to give away a book a day for the entire month of December in honor of the winter holidays. Simply enter your email address for an opportunity to win Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish or Necrophilia Variations. (Perversity Think Tank was printed in a limited edition, so it is not included in the giveaway. The ebook, however, is free to download.)
Something Dark is an online magazine that "exists to explore creativity, intellect and modern society at their darker boundaries." The current issue includes some fabulous photography and artwork, as well as a review of Perversity Think Tank, a separate review of Necrophilia Variations, and a final review of Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish.
Mole Empire reviews Perversity Think Tank...
Defiled Curator takes a detour through Supervert in a text on Benjamin Franklin -- not two names you will often see yoked together...
IROB is right: Supervert has never written an apology for rape.
Two notes from Twitter... Thanks to Black Stone Press for sending a copy of its beautiful letterpress edition of Baudelaire's Pièces Condamnées... Rizzoli has published a beautiful monograph about artist Rita Ackermann that includes artwork chosen by the artist herself.
The Brain's Disk Shivered Against Lust...
2011.07.04
If you have ever wondered why Supervert does not have much of a Facebook presence, you might want to read about Facebook deleting the account of New York's Museum of Sex, in spite of the fact that it had over 43,000 friends and offended no one. It is difficult to justify putting much energy into a social media site whose Terms of Service impose insidious forms of censorship on its users. MoSex has an entire building on Fifth Avenue. It has been featured in the New York Times. It can't have a Facebook page?
On the bright side, the world can't be going to complete hell because Stoya has started a video-based book club. Two intelligent pornographic actresses discussing the books that inspire them — sure beats Oprah...
Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish has been excerpted in a Croatian anthology of "new and innovative American prose." Edited by Zoran Rosko, the book is titled Moje Nocne More Prelijepe Su Za Ovaj Svijet: Nova Inovativna Americka Proza and is published by Oceanmore. You can see the first page of the translated excerpt on Supervert's Flickr account.
Supervert's Baudelaire site, FleursDuMal.org, was recently redesigned with an eye toward speed and simplicity. As a result, the site even made it to the Huffington Post.
Supervert's William Burroughs site, RealityStudio, recently featured Supervert's essay about Jacques Stern, a French junky and writer known only to Beat cognoscenti. At the very moment that Naked Lunch was at the printer, Burroughs was writing letters calling Stern "the greatest writer of our time."
A commenter on this blog post titled "Therapeutic Writing For Overcoming Stress, Anxiety, Depression & Grief" actually recommends Supervert's book Necrophilia Variations: "i was ready to bash it as another goth necro crap but it was so wonderful and disturbing in it's creativity and knowledge that it rekindled my reading hobby and was enough of a distraction to get me of my depresion." Necrophilia contra melancholia...
On Bizarro Central Troy Chambers gave a shout to Supervert's essay Horror Panegyric while offering an ode to Savoy Books. Much thanks for helping keep Savoy in the lights.
Supervert strongly recommends that you check out the photography of Natasha Gornik. (Disclaimer: she has written once or twice about Supervert.) Gornik starts from a place similar to Robert Mapplethorpe, in that she draws on experience — particularly sexual experience — for her work. But then she uses color, text, and her own unique vantage point to take that aesthetic to a new place.
And Supervert IV progresses...
Happy New Year
2011.01.11
Congratulations to the winners of Supervert's annual book giveaway. If you enjoy your book, please consider showing your appreciation by reviewing it, blogging about it, twittering about it, linking to Supervert, etc. Thank you.
Stella Maris at the Crawling Chaos Collective has posted a new interview with Supervert. Most of it concerns Perversity Think Tank, which "stands out," Maris writes, "from just about anything else I can think of that's available from bookstores these days."
I Read Odd Books included Perversity Think Tank in its list of the top 10 books of 2010: "A treasure to own and an interactive experience to read." IROB previously wrote a very thoughtful review of the book.
Raising_Light posted a deeply considered review of Necrophilia Variations to GoodReads. "Speaking of the naive and depraved 'Suicide by Strumpet' sent me in a myriad of cold sweats... I've been that fucking guy."
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