Who’s ready for a little Sunday afternoon delight?
I’ve set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling
In case you missed it, SNL goes to town on 50 Shades of Grey’s popularity among American mothers.
Tuesday New Release Day!
New this week are William Boyd’s Waiting for Sunrise and Graham Swift’s Wish You Were Here. Readers can also now get their hands on the second two volumes in the racy, headline-making Fifty Shades trilogy.
“The book is notable, too, because to some degree, it’s forced erotica into the mainstream conversation. Much of the coverage of Fifty Shades of Grey has focused on sex: women are passing around the novels at spin classes and telling the Times how nice it is to be able to read porn and talk about it with friends. (‘It’s relighting a fire under a lot of marriages,’ one woman said.) But then there are the books’ origins: the trilogy started on FanFiction.net, as a story entitled ‘Master of the Universe,’ in which James’ main characters, Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, were called Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. It was Twilight AU, or Alternate Universe fan fiction, wherein Stephenie Meyer’s innocent girl and vampire were re-imagined as innocent girl and manipulative billionaire.”
- Fifty Shades of Fan Fiction by Elizabeth Minkel
