Fwd: This is the Ritual, by Rob Doyle: Brooding narratives of tentative iconoclasm

[Mark Kohut]

If interested, this book sounds..fascinating and is now on my Maybe list,
but I have pulled a sentence
from it if you don't read the whole review that relates to our Plist 'women
love a fascist, a piercing gaze
can be a seduction and power-dominance in relationships discussions: Notice
there IS A NAME for this!!!???
In *Paris Story* a writer, jealous of the literary success of a female
friend, publishes a scathing review of her work under a pseudonym. She
suffers a crisis of confidence and rushes to him for comfort; they sleep
together and a full-scale romance blossoms. It is a consummate example of
the practice popularly known as negging – pummelling a woman’s self- esteem
the better to win her over – and speaks, like so many of these tales, to
the profound personal insecurity at the heart of the creative process.



http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/this-is-the-ritual-by-rob-doyle-brooding-narratives-of-tentative-iconoclasm-1.2506965?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


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