A NOTE ON THE ORGANIZATION
OF THE LEFT DROP-DOWN MENU

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The leftside drop-down was getting unruly. We considered many organizational tactics. Alphabetically by author? Chronologically? By intelligibility? According to the number of vowels in each title? By the degree to which we liked each one? By word count? By number of times the authors bought us drinks? Or sent money?

Instead we turned to the opening paragraph of Susan Sontag's 1963 essay in Against Interpretation, "Camus' Notebooks." For those of you unfamiliar with this work, we will excerpt it here:
 

"Great writers are either husbands or lovers. Some writers supply the solid virtues of a husband: reliability, intelligibility, generosity, decency. There are other writers in whom one prizes the gifts of the lover, gifts of temperament rather than of moral goodness. Notoriously, women tolerate qualities in a lover -- moodiness, selfishness, unreliability, brutality -- that they would never countenance in a husband, in return for excitement, an infusion of intense feeling. In the same way, readers put up with unintelligibility, obsessiveness, painful truths, lies, bad grammar -- if, in compensation, the writer allows them to savor rare emotions and dangerous sensations. And, as in life, so in art both are necessary, husbands and lovers."
 
We reorganized the fiction archive along these lines: 

FLINGS WITH THE COURTESANS
sexy, off-beat, hysterical stories by women.

STRAIGHT TALK WITH THE HUBBY
stable provisions of reliable fiction by bacon-bringing-home men.

PILLOW TALK WITH THE LITTLE LADY
heart-to-heart chats with women with whom lives are spent.

DANGEROUS SENSATIONS WITH 
BOY TOYS
the weird, rangy, incomprehensible, immature colors with which today's imaginative male imbues the day.
 

We thought you should know. 

 
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