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Linda Jaivin is a local writer famous for her erotica. Here's a tidbit from "Eat Me":
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Slowly, she hiked her short black skirt up above the lace tops of her stockings. She wore no underwear. She never wore underwear. What was the point? She touched herself, and found that she was warm and wet ... she widened her stance. In one swift movement, she reached out and, grabbing him by the back of his head, brought his mouth up to her cunt. He gasped. 'Eat me,' she commanded.
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Linda Jaivin's books have been an international bestsellers, translated into nine languages. Eat Me is being made into a film. She is also a specialist on Chinese contemporary culture; a contributor to magazines and newspapers in Australia and overseas; and generally studies sexual attitudes and practices.
Linda is co-editor, with Geremie Barmé, of New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices, She has written numerous works of short fiction, essays and journalism. She lived in Taiwan from 1977-79, in Hong Kong from 1979-85, and in Beijing from 1985-86. She speaks and reads fluent Mandarin.
Her latest book, "The Monkey and the Dragon: A True Story about Friendship, Music, Politics and Life on the Edge", is a biography of Chinese songwriter / dissident / fengshui master Hou Dejian.
For more information on Linda contact:
Donica Bettanin
The Text Publishing Company
171 Latrobe Street Melbourne Vic 3000 Australia
p. +61 3 9926 4841 f. +61 3 9926 4854
donica.bettanin@textmedia.com.au
To arrange an interview with Linda Jaivin, contact Emily Booth:
(03) 9926 4862
emily.booth@textmedia.com.au
• More bio. info and links
• Interview with Ron Hogan
• Digital Liaisons in Headspace
• Linda's interview with Guo Jian "Liberating the artist from the revolution"
Linda's Book List
The Monkey and the Dragon:
A True Story About Friendship,
Music, Politics & Life on the Edge
'01 ISBN: 1876485914
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Pty Ltd
Dead Sexy
'00 ISBN: 1876485663
Miles Walker, You're Dead
'99 ISBN: 1875847561
Confessions of an S & M Virgin
'97 ISBN: 1875847464
Rock 'n' Roll Babes from Outer Space
'96 ISBN: 1875847332
Eat Me
'95 ISBN: 1875847111
Linda's books online:
Dymocks
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Some of Linda's release trailers:
New release from Text Publishing
Publication date: 3.ix.01
The Monkey and the Dragon
A True Story about Friendship, Music, Politics and Life on the Edge
By Linda Jaivin
The Monkey and the Dragon tells the strange tale of Hou Dejian - Taiwan songwriter, defector, dissident and, in his latest incarnation, fengshui master. Hou Dejian was only 22 when he wrote the song that would become the anthem of the Chinese world in the 1980s and would change his own life forever.
He was 26 when he defected to the mainland, in a move that shocked his peers and sparked a debate on national identity in Taiwan, blowing open long-standing taboos. He helped save thousands of lives on Tiananmen Square in 1989.
The Chinese government, fed up with his criticisms of the regime, literally shipped him back to Taiwan in 1990. Turning to the I Ching for answers to the many questions of his life, he developed his own system of fengshui, and by the end of the 1990s, had become a celebrity fengshui master.
Linda met Hou in 1981, when she was living in Hong Kong as a journalist.
They became close friends. When he defected, she was the only friend who was able to stay in close contact. Taiwan's Nationalist government suspected her of aiding his defection, and banned her from Taiwan for many years.
After Tiananmen, Hou went to Linda's flat in Beijing, and she helped to get him into the Australian Embassy. His intended overnight stay became a 70-day refuge, when a fellow hunger striker was arrested.
When Linda began work on this book, Hou Dejian gave her access to his papers, his family, friends and even the unlisted phone numbers of his enemies; he never asked to censor the result. The Monkey and the Dragon is a fascinating history of recent political and social change in China, and the story of a truly extraordinary friendship.
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Publication date: 27.ix.00
Dead Sexy
The erotic thriller from Linda Jaivin
'She's bitchy, wicked and intelligent.' Weekend Australian
'…very funny stuff.' Washington Post Book World, US
'…wicked, funny and pleasurable.' Code, UK
This is Linda Jaivin at her best - pacy, humorous and dead sexy.
Nicola writes a regular column 'Anabel Says' for a women's magazine,
giving advice to readers on sex. Nicola's boyfriend, Fox, is a hunk: blonde, blue-eyes, great body, sincere and caring. But one day Nicola and her editor Liz meet the irresistible Johnny Wright. Johnny is a 42 year-old architect – lean, hard and muscular, with knowing eyes and a crooked grin. Although Johnny spells trouble in every language, both Nicola and Liz are hooked. What follows surprises all of them, and leads Nicola, Fox and Liz into unexpected experiences. When Johnny is found dead, naked and handcuffed, with Nicola's favourite scarf tied around his legs and neck, there are questions to ask. But which of them has the answers?
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Text Publishing Release - October '97
Linda Jaivin
Confessions of an S & M Virgin
'Jaivin's writing shines and burns.' Sunday Age
'Jaivin's writing, like Jaivin herself, is vivacious, insightful and original.' SMH
'Jaivin's writings on the '89 [Tiananmen] massacre rank amongst the finest pieces of reconstructive journalism published by an Australian.' John Birmingham, ABR
Confessions of an S & M Virgin brings together the best of Linda Jaivin's journalism and non-fiction from the past fifteen years.
Linda visits Sydney's Hellfire Club and gets a spanking as she interviews the manager, tells the terrifying story of her friend the axe murderer and describes the effect of PMT. The irrepressible author wears a penis for a week to see how it feels to be a man, steps into a kick-boxing ring, reveals why she loves younger men and why sex makes hear laugh.
The second part of Confessions gives us an insight into Linda Jaivin's fascinating relationship with China. She takes us backstage at a Beijing rock concert and explores the secretive world of Chinese gay life. She considers the cult of Chairman Mao, and offers a riveting account of the events on Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Confessions of an S & M Virgin is about sex and food and lust and laughter. It will tie you to your chair and make you laugh and cry and laugh again.
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Release from Text Publishing
Publication date: 27.xi.99
Miles Walker, You're Dead
Linda Jaivin
'My name is Miles Walker. Remember it. I'm keen on immortality. I've got to be. I'm twenty-three years old. I'm the best painter of my generation. And I've got four hours to live.'
On the eve of the millennium, Miles Walker has problems. His flatmate Thurston, a moody medievalist, thinks it would be a good career move for Miles to die young. Miles' best friend, the pre-conceptual artist ZakDot, agrees—and the chainsawing-wielding Maddie seems only to happy to help.
Then along comes Destiny, the enigmatically beautiful politician who hates art but likes Miles. Now the others really want to kill him. By the time bare buttocks are squeaking over the black sassafras of the prime ministerial dining table, it looks like Miles' fate is sealed.
Linda Jaivin is back at her hilarious best in this romantic comedy which skewers art and politics with mischievous delight.
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Rock 'n' Roll Babes From Outer Space
Linda Jaivin
'Rock 'n' Roll Babes is a romp. The sex is sexy and the language original and amusing', Sydney Morning Herald
'Jaivin…gives us an intergalactic fairytale that ends in the biggest gig ever. Along the way, she challenges us to look at ourselves. And to be amused.' Rolling Stone
'Her prose has a fresh, unaffected quality. Her characters an unorthodox blend of the sharply observed everyday and the sci-fi cartoon. And her eccentric wit warps what is otherwise a fairly straightforward and acceptably commercial narrative…A layered text which navigates the minefield of contemporary gender and sexuality with finesse and humour, it's a book which offers diverse pleasures.' Sydney Morning Herald
Baby, Doll and Lati, three spunky alien babes, are trapped on Nufon, the most boring planet in the entire yoon. They steal a spaceship and arrive in Sydney, Planet Earth, in search of sex, drugs and rock n roll. When the babes abduct Jake, a minor rock star and dread-headed charmer, and toss him in their saucer's sexual experimentation chamber, the global warming begins.
The babes form a band, and rocket to rock n roll stardom. Trouble is, Jake and Baby are falling in love, a posse of Nufonians is headed for Earth, the US military is on the case and Eros the talking asteroid wants to dive into the mosh as well. The babes are planning their biggest gig, but can they save the world too?
Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space is an hilarious erotic romp by Linda Jaivin, author of the bestselling Eat Me.
The big bang was never so much fun.
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