August 8, 1983 Tokyo, Japan Kanehara Hitomi, (born Aug. 8, 1983, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese novelist whose darkly explicit prose addressed the experience of being young in contemporary Japan.
Male authors are "desperately self-conscious and so no good at writing about sex," Conran insists when I ask her why she thinks female writers seem to get more attention than their male counterparts when it comes to sexually explicit prose.
Capote's explicit, sometimes bitter prose had to go through the usual wash to meet the Hollywood production code.
Yet Gordimer also points out that many black writers turned to poetry because "anything at all controversial, set out by a black in the generally explicit medium of prose, makes the writer suspect" and was liable to be censored.
So long as that remains a given, it seems to me even better to have a British bill, worded in muscular English prose, with explicit reference to British history and traditions, wrapping in the Union Jack what will in practice be essentially the same rights.
The rejection of the "tragic" world view becomes explicit: neither poets nor prose writers should be allowed to say that "many happy men are unjust, and many wretched ones just, and that doing injustice is profitable if one gets away with it, but justice is someone else's good and one's own loss".
In a century in which so many writers struggled against censorship laws for the right to describe a variety of sexual activities in explicit terms, Dame Barbara's prose remained dedicated to an unlikely celebration of the adventures of passionate virgins.
Max, of course made his name as a publishing enfant terrible with the books I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Assholes Finish First, and Hilarity Ensues, which depict sexual encounters and drunken mishaps in detailed, explicit, and sometimes fairly misogynistic prose.
His prose played with the explicit and the implicit, the bald statement and the sceptical gloss.
His 2012 stage play, People, satirised the National Trust and the heritage industry, while his prose fiction has featured increasingly explicit and kinky sex, with one book bluntly called Smut.
