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14<title>Anthony Valerio
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18About award-winning author Anthony Valerio&#39;s Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer, Professor Ellen Nerenberg says:
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20&quot;These confessions, mine, Walter Michael Gregory&#39;s, center on the interstices between soft and hard literary porn as they were known in the 1960s and 70s.&quot;
21 This is the kernel of Anthony Valerio&#39;s salty and sweet, romping short book, Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer. Trying to survive as a writer in New York City, Wally joins Ern Billions, Bonita Guggenheim, and Tad Browning as a staff writer at Porn/Prose, where, on spec and on commission, they write porn for hire. And &quot;for hire&quot; is part of the title of the pseudonymous Wally&#39;s best-known effort, This Body for Hire, which also has a place within the pages of Valerio&#39;s Confessions. Things are hard and soft in so many ways and directions. Among the hard are the winter of 1979, the rules of copyediting that Wally learns at Ern&#39;s knee, the lead of the Number 2 pencils he uses to ply his trade as a writers and editor, the concept of one-way staircase that disappears behind anyone who climbs it, the black laces of Sister Morisella&#39;s hard-soled black shoes. Among the soft we can group the heart of Anonymous, the hooker Wally invents as the first-person narrator of This Body for Hire, the pillowy arms and bosoms of the women his single mom Caroline surrounds herself with, the rounded characters of the notes Caroline the wordless uses to express herself. Pastiche reigns supreme as genre in this book that pivots between hard and soft, between first and third person narrator, between the writing hand and sober, dignified copyeditor&#39;s font and type. Delightful and witty, Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer is unafraid to own its Times Square-in-the-1970s setting.
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141<a href="/index.htm"><h1 class='sb_title sb_has_Subtitle'>Anthony Valerio<br> <br> <br> <br>About award-winning author Anthony Valerio's Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer, Professor Ellen Nerenberg says:<br> <br>"These confessions, mine, Walter Michael Gregory's, center on the interstices between soft and hard literary porn as they were known in the 1960s and 70s."<br> This is the kernel of Anthony Valerio's salty and sweet, romping short book, Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer. Trying to survive as a writer in New York City, Wally joins Ern Billions, Bonita Guggenheim, and Tad Browning as a staff writer at Porn/Prose, where, on spec and on commission, they write porn for hire. And "for hire" is part of the title of the pseudonymous Wally's best-known effort, This Body for Hire, which also has a place within the pages of Valerio's Confessions. Things are hard and soft in so many ways and directions. Among the hard are the winter of 1979, the rules of copyediting that Wally learns at Ern's knee, the lead of the Number 2 pencils he uses to ply his trade as a writers and editor, the concept of one-way staircase that disappears behind anyone who climbs it, the black laces of Sister Morisella's hard-soled black shoes. Among the soft we can group the heart of Anonymous, the hooker Wally invents as the first-person narrator of This Body for Hire, the pillowy arms and bosoms of the women his single mom Caroline surrounds herself with, the rounded characters of the notes Caroline the wordless uses to express herself. Pastiche reigns supreme as genre in this book that pivots between hard and soft, between first and third person narrator, between the writing hand and s
141ober, dignified copyeditor's font and type. Delightful and witty, Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer is unafraid to own its Times Square-in-the-1970s setting.<br>Prof. E. Nerenberg, Wesleyan University</h1>
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413<p class="from_wysiwyg">you hear about post partum book completion depression, at least this writer feels it now. Spinning an important tragic yarn like Semmelweis with years of energy, belief, good will, extention into the universe, and then, one day, stop, the way the new mothers who contracted childbed fever, which&nbsp; causes and mean of prevention he would discover, those mothers' hearts stopped, and sometimes their newborns, too, their breathes ceased and, in the end, Semmelweil went mad, some say from persecution, others late-stage syphillis, still others by infecting himself, running into a surgical theater which location he was able to re
413call, and cutting himself&nbsp; then immersing his bare bloddy hands deep into the corpse. In all likelihood, this feeling could arise also after writing a comedy, a musical.</p>
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423<h3 class='MediumHeader'><a href="/blog/posts/31454">Michelangelo in Bologna II</a></h3>
424<div class='blog-post-date'>April 30, 2014</div>
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431Another day should not pass without Daisy seeing with her own eyes three sculptures by the young Michelangelo here in Bologna. He was nineteen years old and lived here for eleven months—October 1494 – September ’95-- so he experienced the seasons in the Emilio-Romagna valley, the winters damp, cold, and the winds blow and hold &nbsp;<a href="#" class="sbx-read-more-link">Read More</a>&nbsp;
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442<div class='blog-post-date'>April 16, 2014</div>
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449a Wednesday, off to see early Michelangelos with my own eyes. A marble  angel--height 51.5, and a statue of Saint Proculus of Bologna which purportedly presages the David--are located in the Basilica of San Domenico. An Asian couple and I arrive at the door at the same time only to discover that the Basilica is &nbsp;<a href="#" class="sbx-read-more-link">Read More</a>&nbsp;
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459<h3 class='MediumHeader'><a href="/blog/posts/31436">Origin of Georgio Vasari&#39;s (1511-1574)  LIVES OF THE ARTISTS</a></h3>
460<div class='blog-post-date'>April 12, 2014</div>
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467"At that time I went often in the evening, at the end of the day's work, to see the above-named most illustrious Cardinal Farnese at supper, where there were always present, to entertain him with beautiful and honourable discourse, Molza, Annibale Caro, M. Gandolfo, M. Claudio Tolomei, M. Romolo Amaseo, Monsignor Giovio, and many &nbsp;<a href="#" class="sbx-read-more-link">Read More</a>&nbsp;
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477<h3 class='MediumHeader'><a href="/blog/posts/31439">The Last Supper &amp; Peter Luger&#39;s Steak House</a></h3>
478<div class='blog-post-date'>April 10, 2014</div>
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485Viewing Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan is like eating a porterhouse steak at Peter Luger's Steakhouse in Brooklyn, New York. You need to make reservations weeks, months, in advance. The actual viewing and eating require planning, forethought, like rehearsing a death-bed scene.
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503Today took a walk and got lost on Via Zamboni. There was the church of Mary Magdalene and I went in and prayed and meditated on Mary Magdalene and felt the love Jesus had for her and she for him. Though I have  loved many women in this one lifetime, not one has ever &nbsp;<a href="#" class="sbx-read-more-link">Read More</a>&nbsp;
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514<div class='blog-post-date'>December 8, 2013</div>
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521The second item on the papal itinerary today was a visit to St. Mary Major Basilica (Santa Maria Maggiore) to venerate the image of Mary known as the "Salus Populi Romani," which is an icon depicting Mary and the Christ child, over the altar of the Pauline Chapel (Cappella Paolina). <br>I have written about &nbsp;<a href="#" class="sbx-read-more-link">Read More</a>&nbsp;
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532<div class='blog-post-date'>December 8, 2013</div>
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539Today, December 8, Italians celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. All Catholics from recently baptized infants to men who, as a rule, do not go to church, which, in our entrada, comprised the majority of our men, the belief being that god would be more receptive to the prayers of our women more so &nbsp;<a href="#" class="sbx-read-more-link">Read More</a>&nbsp;
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550<div class='blog-post-date'>November 26, 2013</div>
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557Remembering JFK from Italy (1963/2013)<br>Ferruccio—called Ruccio-- and I together that day 50 years ago, in late afternoon Italian time, in Bologna. Today we arrange to meet at that city’s Porta Castiglione, named for the author, diplomat, soldier and courtier Baldassarre Castiglione (1478-1529), best known for his book, The Courtier. Italian streets have memory. &nbsp;<a href="#" class="sbx-read-more-link">Read More</a>&nbsp;
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568<div class='blog-post-date'>November 25, 2013</div>
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575You could hear the pride in Daisy’s voice and see the delight in her eyes when her Spanish, Ital
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