title: The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena: How to write best-selling erotic romance
author:  Chlo Thurlow 
description: "Totally awesome dissection of literary success which is easy to follow, and makes perfect sense. Who knows, perhaps I'll write the next 50 Shades." Maffism on Amazon.
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  **Chris Kraus** is the author of the novels _I Love Dick_ , _Aliens &
  Anorexia_, and _Summer of Hate_ , as well as _Video Green: Los Angeles Art and
  the Triumph of Nothingness_ and _Where Art Belongs_. A contributor to various
  magazines, she teaches writing at European Graduate School and lives in LA.
  
  
  PRAISE FOR _TORPOR_
  
  
  “Chris Kraus writes about the strangeness of the world in a clear American
  prose filled with emotion, but with no vapors of style … Chris Kraus is a
  great writer”
  
  
  — Michael Tolkin, _Artforum_
  
  
  “Feelings about messed-up relationships cut back and forth with painful
  proddings of historical events, all rendered in a kind of open prose that
  allows a dirt road to lead to Desert Storm and end up in an analysis of
  _Thirtysomething_. The effect is so startling that it resuscitates words long
  fallen out of fashion: _Torpor_ is honest and true”
  
  
  — Alex Kitnick, _The Believer_
  
  
  “ _Torpor_ takes aim at the traditional bourgeois novel about marriage an