Roxana Shirazi

Shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior: Why Roxana Shirazi’s The Last Living Slut is more boring than balls-out.

Books post by Andi Zeisler on August 11, 2010 - 10:05am; tagged autobiography, BiblioBitch, groupies, I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Neil Strauss, Pamela Des Barres, Roxana Shirazi, the Game, The Last Living Slut.

 

an image of the book cover of The Last Living Slut

In the many years that I’ve been editing book reviews, I’ve never been pitched so hard on a title as I was for Roxana Shirazi’s The Last Living Slut: Born In Iran, Bred Backstage. The book’s PR trumpeted that it "is sure to be one of the most-talked-about and controversial books of the year…the rock and roll version of The Satanic Verses." Weekly e-mails and phone calls alerted me to the "unapologetic, feminist book" and its "passionate, heartfelt tale of jilted love," urged me to interview the author, and—with that Rushdie reference—suggested that Shirazi’s tale of cock-rock conquest could easily be grounds for a fatwa.

After actually reading it, though, I’m thinking that if The Last Living Slut does turn out to be one of the most talked-about books of the year, it’ll be mainly because those publicists can’t stop fulminating about how controversial it is.

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