Brilliant, Attractive, Polymath Yale Law Prof Also Kinda Pervy
There's nothing we love more than professorial flirtations with pop culture, be they as straight-faced as Margo Jefferson's On Michael Jackson or as laughable as Cornel West's LP. Now comes Jed Rubenfeld: Yale law prof, Freud enthusiast, and, we hear, the next next Dan Brown.
His new book, The Interpretation of Murder, has the makings of a hit. Historical backdrop (turn-of-the-century New York), controversial figures (Freud, Jung), and some of the freakiest sex scenes to drip from an Ivy Leaguer's pen since that adjunct got desperate for cash. Here's a quickie from the NYT Book Review:
"[T]here's a hot girl strung up from the ceiling, being suffocated with a silk tie and cut with a razor while she's coached by her abuser to moan in pleasure. Her torture is shamelessly eroticized: 'She cried out, her back curved in exactly the same arch as the great windows, her raven hair flowing down her back ...' "
Later:
"'From above, Nora watched him light a cigarette in the flame of her bedside candle, place a knee against her supine form, and extinguish the glowing cigarette directly on her skin, down there, only an inch or two from her most private part.'"
Yowza! All that privacy law making you antsy, Jed? If this slobbering review is any indication, Rubenfeld can soon trade his crappy day job for the glamorous life of a Hollywood screenwriter. (Or at least the kind whose stuff airs at 10 p.m. on channel 512.)
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