Arthur Pfefferkorn, his current protagonist, is neither young nor adventurous, having written one novel and then settled into a boring existence as a college professor.
In the 1950s and 1960s Cavalier, Nugget, Escapade and other euphemistically dubbed "men's magazines" published some of the most adventurous new writing in the United States, jump-starting or sustaining the careers of Mario Puzo, Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, Jack Kerouac and others.
This repulsion, however, was ultimately outweighed by her worry that anti-pornography legislation might be used against sexually adventurous feminist writing as well: Only one area frightens me more, & that is a world Ray Bradbury & George Orwell have shown us in literature.
Jerry likes: pink jersey T-shirt, £15 from American Apparel Unlike the other characters, Elaine Benes actually works in fashion, writing florid, adventurous copy for the J Peterman catalogue and inventing things such as the floppy urban sombrero (which was not at all a success).
Though I'm not a mountaineer, I imagined writing an adventurous account of high altitude heroics, tents perched on snow ledges and ropes snaking up ice cliffs.
Writing an adventurous story including someone you know as a character can help you personify how you feel about them.
Instead, it's the mining, massaging, and reworking of found online texts into something personal that appears to be fuelling some of the more adventurous poetry being written today.
And it's also a genuinely adventurous attempt to write a kind of symphony that no-one had attempted so completely before, the secret of which lies in another interpretation of Lambert's idea that the piece rethinks those "exigencies of symphonic form".
Thirty-five years before Pound's campaign, Arthur Rimbaud had made assaults of a similar character on French poetry, in the course of which he had snatched Paul Verlaine from the protection of the genteel Parnassian poets and crossed over to London, where his most adventurous work was written: A Season in Hell and portions of Illuminations.
"Romneys are, by nature, an adventurous breed," he writes, referring briefly to Miles' conversion and emigration, as well as the family's move "west across the plains to Utah" and later to Mexico.
