And he sleeps with a lot of girls, which is beginning to earn him a not-quite-savory reputation around school. "Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it’s all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex." Cole fantasizes about whomever he’s looking at. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison, Daniel Handler gives us a tender, brutal, funny, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world.Ĭole is a boy in high school. Bookshop Santa Cruz presents bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) in conversation with Susie Bright as they talk about his new novel, All the Dirty Parts, a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man.Īll The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, where queer can be as fluid as consent, where sex feels like love, but no one knows what love feels like.
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