{"id":1208,"date":"2014-02-28T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2014-02-25T06:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T05:56:54","slug":"topless-co-ed-pulp-fiction-appreciation-society-wants-women-to-know-their-reading-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2014\/02\/topless-co-ed-pulp-fiction-appreciation-society-wants-women-to-know-their-reading-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Topless Co-ed Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society Wants Women to Know Their Reading Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via nerve.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Alison Gaylin<\/h6>\n

They crop up in New York City\u2019s public parks when the weather gets warm: clusters of bold young women, poring over volumes of crime fiction, horror, sci fi, erotica\u2014 whatever books they can get their hands on\u2014chatting, snacking, soaking up the sun. All of them are completely naked from the waist up.<\/p>\n

The group is known as the Outdoor Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society. It\u2019s just three years old, but continues to grow exponentially, in both notoriety and numbers. To date, OCTPFAS has swelled from around a dozen to 100 regular members, while its blog<\/a> has racked up more than 8 million hits. They\u2019ve received fan mail from columnist Dave Barry (who also blogged about them) and a carton of free books from the late Elmore Leonard. They\u2019ve dined with authors Lawrence Block and Christa Faust, sparked newspaper headlines and myth-like rumors (Did Bob Dylan really paint one of their meetings in Central Park?) and have found themselves, more than once, playing the role of muse. \u201cAuthors have written about us,\u201d says the group\u2019s founder, an avid reader who goes by the name Alethea. \u201cOne wrote us a poem recently. It\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

It all started with Getting Off<\/i>. Back in 2011, Alethea was talking to her friend, publisher Charles Ardai, about Lawrence Block\u2019s steamy new crime novel, an upcoming release from Ardai\u2019s company, Hard Case Crime. Getting Off<\/i> was causing some in-house concern because of its cover. \u201cIs it too much?\u201d Ardai asked Alethea, holding up the proposed book jacket, which depicted a completely naked woman walking in on a lover, long dagger clasped behind her back. \u201cWould you read this in public?\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a legitimate question for Ardai to ask a female reader. This was 2011 \u2013 the same year that Fifty Shades of Grey<\/i> first leapt onto the scene and skyrocketed, largely due to the fact that, as an e-book, it lacked a cover. As numerous breathless articles pointed out, Fifty Shades<\/i> could be safely read anywhere: on a commuter train, waiting for your kindergartener\u2019s school bus, working the cashbox at a church bake sale \u2013 anywhere<\/i>. And no one would be the wiser.<\/p>\n

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Via nerve.com: By\u00a0Alison Gaylin They crop up in New York City\u2019s public parks when the weather gets warm: clusters of bold young women, poring over volumes of crime fiction, horror, sci fi, erotica\u2014 whatever books they can get their hands on\u2014chatting, snacking, soaking up the sun. All of them are completely naked from the waist … Continue reading “Topless Co-ed Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society Wants Women to Know Their Reading Rights”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,95],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-being-outside","category-clothes-free","category-naktivism","tag-read-naked","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}