{"id":281,"date":"2011-02-13T22:25:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T19:45:20","slug":"getting-a-grip-on-things-a-love-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/getting-a-grip-on-things-a-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Grip on Things: A Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are times when it seems that in search of creating a moving story, I not only ignore the marketplace, I often write against it. <\/p>\n

“Getting a Grip on Things” is a pornographic anti-pornography story, a crazy thing to try to write, as it likely was unsuitable for any publication. The harshest anti-pornography zealot would have agreed with the theme of the story, but would have been horrified by the execution, while Penthouse<\/em> would have been perfectly confortable with its prose, but aghast at the story’s point. But that’s the way I needed to play with the reader’s mind in order to put over the premise, and so that’s the story that got written.<\/p>\n

Luckily, editor Chris DeVito was looking to push the envelope with Proud Flesh<\/em>, attempting to put together a magazine of dangerous visions, and so the story was published in the Fall 1994 issue.<\/p>\n

Chris illustrated the story with a photo of Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara and a quote from J.G. Ballard: “I think we’re seeing a new kind of prudery. There isn’t as much pornographic material available to us as the modern communications landscape could, and should, provide&#8212\u201dI think there should be far more.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are times when it seems that in search of creating a moving story, I not only ignore the marketplace, I often write against it. “Getting a Grip on Things” is a pornographic anti-pornography story, a crazy thing to try to write, as it likely was unsuitable for any publication. The harshest anti-pornography zealot would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282,"parent":13,"menu_order":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-281","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}