Lucy Roeber

Closing the Cabinet lucyroeber.com/2023/09/09/clo… via @lucyroeber

Just re-read @Wintersonworld Written on the Body for my erotic book club. Loved it even more than I did over twenty years ago. lucyroeber.com/2020/07/01/the…

Jeanette Winterson's 'Written on the Body' is a rare and complex exploration of the complexities of love, still as potent over 20 years later. It contains some of the most unexpectedly erotic writing I've ever read. lucyroeber.com/2020/07/01/the…

With few means to escape the lock down, books are having a well-deserved resurgence. Something to feel positive about. bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Isolation pares down parenthood to its bare bones. I keep thinking of @cloverstroud brilliant new book on motherhood. Review on lucyroeber.com

Clover Stroud has just published her second brilliant memoir - My Wild and Sleepless Nights - exploring her experience of motherhood. It is unusually honest about balancing her desire for sex and the reality of being a mother. lucyroeber.com/2020/04/17/how…

The most successful erotic book ever... Fifty Shades of Grey. What was it that made this book the fastest selling adult novel of all time? How does it represent female desire? lucyroeber.com/2020/03/13/the…

@stuartmacalpine I've been reading all these books on the tube! And I have been getting some interesting looks...

Anais Nin's two collections of erotica were published posthumously in 1977 - they might never have had an audience. Yet, these slim books hold some of the most sensual and erotic writing about female desire I've ever read. lucyroeber.com/2020/01/29/the…

The Story of O is one of the most iconic works of erotic fiction ever written. It's not been out of print since 1954. Yet, O's submission and annihilation of herself for love is a surprisingly brutal and beautiful read. lucyroeber.com/2020/02/14/the…

“Men have so often written about women without knowing the reality of their lives, and worse, without being interested in that daily reality.” —Grace Paley theparisreview.org/interviews/202…

How does a woman lose her sexual self in motherhood? How does she claim it back? Two recent debuts written by women explore the difficult subject of female adultery. lucyroeber.com/2019/11/29/the…

The second book review in my series of writing about sex is on Lisa Taddeo's Three Women. It's an astonishing piece of narrative journalism on female desire; the beauty and violence of yearning. lucyroeber.com/2019/11/13/wha…

Dismembered lucyroeber.com/2019/10/17/dis…

Feathers between my Fingers lucyroeber.com/2019/08/16/fea…

In 1762, Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote an influential book on the education of boys and girls. Are his views on the fundamental difference between the sexes exceptional? Or do traces of them still remain now? lucyroeber.com/2018/05/04/how…

@stuartmacalpine Xxx

My novel, The Posture Girl, is with my agent and I'm bereft without 18th century London. I miss the hair-dress, the caricatures and the Wedgwood tea pots. I miss the silk stockings, coffee shops and leather dildos. lucyroeber.com/2018/04/26/the…

I can't help but join in the clamour of praise for George Saunders's #ManBooker2017 winning novel - Lincoln in the Bardo - published by @BloomsburyBooks. He recreates history in such an unusual and thought-provoking way. lucyroeber.com/2018/03/28/abr…

George Saunders's first long work of fiction - Lincoln in the Bardo -rightly won the Booker prize in 2017. His approach to historical fiction is so unusual and interesting that I can't help but join the clamour of praise. lucyroeber.com/2018/03/28/abr…