Sasha Vasilyuk
@sashavasilyuk.bsky.social
Journalist | Author of debut novel YOUR PRESENCE IS MANDATORY (4/23/2024) in U.S./Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, Brazil. Words in the New York Times, TIME, BBC, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar. www.sashavasilyuk.com
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I'm thrilled to share my first piece for The New Yorker. It's about the Beat poet Lenore Kandel, whose erotic poetry collection, The Love Book, led to San Francisco's last and longest obscenity trial. Read more about this story of censorship here:
The Forgotten Poet at the Center of San Francisco’s Longest Obscenity Trial
Amid Reagan’s late-sixties crackdown on the California counterculture, a jury was tasked with deciding whether Lenore Kandel’s psychedelic sex poems had “redeeming social importance.”
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October 13, 2023 at 4:12 PM
I'm thrilled to share my first piece for The New Yorker. It's about the Beat poet Lenore Kandel, whose erotic poetry collection, The Love Book, led to San Francisco's last and longest obscenity trial. Read more about this story of censorship here: