Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, staff from BookBar in Denver — scheduled to close at the end of January — recommend “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade,” “Now Is Not the Time to Panic” and “Links.”
Before the store shuts its doors, it will feature in-store-only sales throughout the month: Jan. 1-7, ALL inventory (books, sidelines, journals, etc) 25% off; Jan. 8-14, 30% off; Jan. 15-21, 35% off; and Jan. 22-31, 40% off. Additionally, the store will feature separate bar item sales/happy hours.
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade
By Joel Warner
Crown
$28.99
February 2023
Purchase
From the publisher: Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” “120 Days of Sodom” was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across France, evaded execution, and inspired the word “sadism.” Despite all his crimes, Sade considered this work to be his greatest transgression.
The original manuscript of “120 Days of Sodom,” a tiny scroll penned in the bowels of the Bastille in Paris, would embark on a centuries-spanning odyssey across Europe, passing from 19-century banned book collectors to pioneering sex researchers to avant-garde artists before being hidden away from Nazi book burnings. In 2014, the…
