Barbara Kruger, Los Angeles, 2022 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
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On Substack’s Lit Mag Lounge, there’s a new interview with me on my fiction writing process, “Publishing Diaries: Susannah Breslin”: “I committed myself to an experiment: Could I write about this provocative subject matter—the adult movie business—and what someone who works in the adult movie business would describe as a ‘civilian’s’ encounter with it in a style that could be published in The New Yorker?”
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Adult actress, Las Vegas, Nev., 2013 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
An adult actress at the AVN Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2013. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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An excerpt from my 2009 investigation of the Great Recession’s impact on the adult movie industry, “They Shoot Porn Stars, Don’t They?”, a longform piece praised by Longform as “unflinching and devastating.”
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A reminder that an adult movie set photograph of mine is part of the “Don’t Be a Square” group show in NYC.
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Masked mannequin, New York, N.Y., 2001 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
A pensive mannequin wears a mask in New York City. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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This is part 26 of Fuck You, Pay Me, an ongoing series of posts on writing, editing, and publishing.
I’m happy to announce that my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, has been translated into Mandarin and published in Taiwan by Akker Publishing. I love the haunting and sci-fi-ish new cover.
Data Baby recounts my 30-year tenure, from early childhood and well into adulthood, as a research subject in a pioneering University of California, Berkeley longitudinal study of personality development that sought to predict who a cohort of over 100 Berkeley kids, including me, would grow up to be.
Actress Emma Roberts’ Belletrist book club selected Data Baby as its December 2023 pick. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it “a fascinating debut memoir” and “gripping stuff.” Kirkus Reviews deemed it “An intelligently provocative memoir and investigation.” And The Globe and Mail described it as “a thought-provoking, ridiculously propulsive book.” I also wrote an essay about what it’s like to be a child guinea pig for Slate. Learn more about my book here.
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Revisiting “I Spent My Childhood as a Guinea Pig for Science. It Was … Great?”—my personal essay, on Slate.
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A triptych of photos of me taken over the years by my buddy, Clayton Cubitt. Hire him to take your photo here.
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For HILOBROW, I wrote a short personal essay about my affection for No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurh.
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Today was a good day: breakfast at Tartine, Josh Smith at David Zwirner, graffiti on the overpass. More is here.
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A generative design made with a generative design tool by Generativ Design via Kottke.
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Adult actresses, Los Angeles, Calif., 2024 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
Two adult actresses get ready before their sex scene. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Me and John Holmes, West Hollywood, Calif., 2023 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
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Yesterday I went to an estate sale at the home of Mell Lazarus and bought this cartoonist conference standee.
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I got myself a copy of Jim Camp’s latest limited edition photozine: Four Minute Mile. I love it. Get yours here.
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“Outside, there was lightning, but no thunder.” On my website, I republished a fictional short story I wrote years ago that was originally published by Contrary in 2016: “Storm Clouds Over the State of Louisiana.”
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