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I Went to the Adult Novelty Manufacturers Expo
What I'm Working On: July 2026
Silver Lake woman, Los Angeles, Calif., 2026 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
Currently, I’m advising an iconic magazine on content strategy and branding, writing an essay for a film distributor’s new limited edition release of a classic movie, designing an art installation for an art exhibition, writing a story for a magazine, and editing a popular Substack newsletter.
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It's Gripping Stuff
The Publishers Weekly review for my investigative memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment.
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Porn Blind Graphic
For “Porn Blind,” my in-progress, ten-part, 10,000-word series about what I learned about the adult movie industry and myself over the last 30 years, I created this title graphic that I use at the top of every installment of the series. The background is a photo I took on an adult movie set, and I added the text using Canva.
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Read It and Weep
“What I had discovered was not a window into the adult movie industry but a peephole into what people will do when they are allowed to do anything at all.” The latest installment of “Porn Blind” is out. Subscribe here.
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Euphoria & Forbes
Porn Blind, Serialized
Adult movie set with flowers, Canoga Park, Calif., 2009 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
In my Substack newsletter, I’m serializing “Porn Blind,” a 10-part, approximately 10,000-word series about what I learned writing about the adult movie industry for nearly 30 years, how the business changed, and how it changed me. Subscribe here. Read all the parts so far here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
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The 2026 Tournament of Books Championship
Read my final verdict in The 2026 Tournament of Books Championship, featuring The Passenger Seat v. Flesh.
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The Catch v. Flesh
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living
“If, as Socrates contended, ‘the unexamined life is not worth living,’ then Breslin is living hers to the fullest. Lucky for us, she’s written a thought-provoking, ridiculously propulsive book about it.” — an excerpt from The Globe and Mail review of my investigative memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment.
Porn Blind: Part 1
Adult movie set, Canoga Park, Calif., 2009 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
In my newsletter, I’m publishing “Porn Blind,” a 10-part series about what I learned writing about the adult movie industry for nearly 30 years, how the business changed, and how it changed me. The series starts here. Subscribe to my newsletter here. If you want to support my work, please share a link to it online. Thanks!
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Data Baby Dedication
The dedication for my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, via X’s @dedication_bot.
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Me and My Oeuvre
“Recently, I’ve been updating my website, and as part of the process I went through some of my past journalism stories. Quite a few are about the adult movie industry.” — read the rest and subscribe
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I'm So Happy
What If?
What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you’re a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? Find out in my memoir: Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment.
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These Interstitial Spaces
“Later it occurred to me that I’m only really happy when I’m in these interstitial spaces, where I’ve kind of slipped behind the curtain to see what people are really about, and it’s like living in the place that everyone wants to visit but is too afraid to talk about.” — from my newsletter, “I’m Only Happy When It Rains”
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Operation Me
AVN Awards, Las Vegas, Nev., 2013 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
“Because the narrative is filtered through me, covers a vast expanse of time, and includes not only what I witnessed but how what I witnessed shaped the person I became, the essay had to feature me as a central character. In the past, I’ve avoided this angle; on the set of an adult movie, I am the least interesting thing in the room.” Read my latest newsletter, “How to Perform a Literary Auto-vivisection,” and subscribe.
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My 2026 Journal: Day 1
Today I’m working on a 10,000-word personal essay about how the adult movie industry has changed since I first found myself on the set of an adult movie over 25 years ago and how what I saw there changed me. The working title is of the story is “When Pornographers Were Kings.” “Scenes From My Life in Porn Valley.”
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It's Gripping Stuff
“Fascinating. […] Unpacking thorny questions about determinism and the ethics of human experimentation, Breslin attacks her subject with verve and wit, resisting woe-is-me solipsism without defanging her critiques of the study that rocked her life. It’s gripping stuff.” — buy Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment
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