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What I'm Listening to: Automatic's "mq9"
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Mirror Stage
Adult actress Houston, Las Vegas, Nev., 2013 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
Adult actress Houston in the mirror, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2013. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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What We See When We Look
Barbara Kruger, Los Angeles, 2022 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
“In my case, a covert narcissist mother and an emotionally unavailable father shaped the story of my life, one in which I ended up going to Porn Valley.” Subscribe and get my newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox.
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An Interview With Me About Writing Fiction
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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What I'm Listening to: Boo Boos' "C'mon Baby"
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Tangerine Dream
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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The Real Scene
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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Square Show
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
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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Fuck You, Pay Me #26: My Memoir in Taiwan
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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Who's the Lab Rat Now?
Revisiting “I Spent My Childhood as a Guinea Pig for Science. It Was … Great?”—my personal essay, on Slate.
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Me, by Clayton Cubitt
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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Anton Chigurh: An Appreciation
For HILOBROW, I wrote a short personal essay about my affection for No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurh.
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Triptych (Friday)
Today was a good day: breakfast at Tartine, Josh Smith at David Zwirner, graffiti on the overpass. More is here.
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Autogenerative
A generative design made with a generative design tool by Generativ Design via Kottke.
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What I'm (Looking Forward to) Watching: The Bride!
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Hardcore Pleasure
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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What Tripp Towers Wanted
Me and John Holmes, West Hollywood, Calif., 2023 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
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Thanks, Mell
Yesterday I went to an estate sale at the home of Mell Lazarus and bought this cartoonist conference standee.
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