If you’re in San Francisco, tonight there’s going to be a free book event that is going to be really interesting: Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue will be reading from her new book Girlvert: A Porno Memoir tonight, August 18, at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street) from 7:30-9pm, also featuring Dave Naz and Carol Queen.
I wrote a review of Girlvert that includes an interview with Small on SF Appeal – here’s a snip:
Most porno-girl autobiographies are trite compendiums of trash and morality; they go down with the speed and guilt of a bag of chips.
Jenna Jameson’s memoir was a trotty tiptoe through the tropes, while Traci Lords’ combined teasing the readers’ lust for sleaze into a pile of anti-porn regrets by the tale’s end. Neither were satisfying, and left an artificial aftertaste that made readers like me feel that poor writing would always be given a pass if it was about sex, and that the gritty facts were traded for the unease expected of stories about women who like the “wrong” kind of sex.
Not so in Orinana Small’s Girlvert: A Porno Memoir. Girlvert is the memoir that shakes up the pretense of the memoir genre with a slap of Bukowski and shows a young woman slicing life with the sharp end of the knife.
Instead of fading out when the shocking sex acts begin; Small turns the lights up so bright I think G.G. Allen would flinch at the spectacle.
Girlvert isn’t the story of a good girl gone bad, but is a real-life white knuckle ride through the toughest and scariest sexual scenarios and situations imaginable. Some people will find the sex, and a few non-sex scenes, quite disturbing. But we never forget that it is her story to tell, even when Small’s wanna-be pimp boyfriend is cutting up the drugs or pushing Small to the next level, it’s perfectly clear with every moment of self-reflection that Small is indeed driving the car, even if it has no brakes.
Small begins her decade-long porn career as Ashley Blue by taking up ‘modeling’ jobs in Los Angeles, racing toward money, drugs, and the party lifestyle on a quest for the most extreme sexual experiences she can find – mostly in porn. (…read more, sfappeal.com)
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wow, more of carol queen and the mayhems. they are both amazing finds and i thank you.
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