Buckley on Webb Sex Scenes
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James Joyner | Friday, November 3, 2006 |
William F. Buckley, Jr.: “The charge by assorted gentry that James Webb is not qualified to serve as a U.S. senator from Virginia because there are lewdnesses in his published fiction rattles one’s faith in democracy.”
Indeed.
Of course, anyone who has read any of Buckley’s Blackford Oakes spy novels would expect this reaction given the number of explicit sex scenes that the protagonist engages in. I read an amusing critique of Buckley’s awkwardness in writing about sex on a blog some time back. (I thought it was at Crooked Timber but find no such reference in my searches.)
via Steven Taylor
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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Buckley's sex scenes were notoriously cringe-worthy! It was as if he were some sort of uptight, Northern Mandarin.... oh, right....
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