Sasha Grey Profile In Esquire Talks About Her New Erotic Novel

Sasha Grey hasn’t done anything connected to the porn industry in a long time. A lot of pornstars keep one foot in the XXX industry even after they retire, but Grey has managed to successfully distance herself from the porn industry without going so far as denying her past as a pornstar. It’s a fine balancing act that’s difficult to maintain, but Grey’s involvement in a variety of creative endeavors since her retirement in 2011 have kept her in the public eye without focusing on her past career as the most popular pornstar since Jenna Jameson.

It’s hard to look at Grey and forget that five short years ago, she’s was the world’s most recognizable face in porn. Even people who knew diddly squat about porn knew who Sasha Grey was. Looking back, it’s strange realizing how substantial Grey’s impact on porn was. She was 18 when she first started doing porn and only in the industry for a handful of years, but she still ranks on Pornhub’s top 20 pornstars. That is pretty damn miraculous in an industry that has since a large influx of new stars on what seems like a daily basis.

These days, Sasha Grey is still hard at work. She recently published her second erotic novel, The Janus Chamber. She’s got DJing gigs all over the world. She just did a collaboration with the clothing brand Skim Milk based on her own designs.

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Oh and she’s doing this artsy series of shorts that critics art through the use of poetry. It’s called Greyscale and you can see the first episode here:

What else? What else? Hum, the Esquire interview had a weird ending.

What is that even? I thought for sure there was a second page and I couldn’t see where I was supposed to click, but nope the interview ended with “Do you get in Twitter beefs?” Brilliant. Not.

Right, so the book. The Janus Chamber is volume two in Grey’s series of erotic novels, The Juliette Society. I haven’t read either of them, so I can’t give you my take. Alpha Harlot read the first one, you can read her take on it here. I can, however, tell you that after reading The Janus Chamber sample pages on Amazon I got the same feeling as Alpha when she read The Juliette Society, which is to say Sasha can be unnecessarily wordy. I like literary smut, but Sasha’s writing style leaves me feeling like she’s trying to hard. That said, I didn’t hate the excerpt I read. Definitely better than Fifty Shades of Grey.

Via esquire.com – Follow Lola Byrd on Twitter @misslolabyrd

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