Darcey Steinke is an American novelist and journalist. The daughter of a Lutheran minister, she was born on 25 April 1962. She is the author of four novels (Up Through the Water, Suicide Blonde, Jesus Saves, and Milk) and the memoir Easter Everywhere. She also co-edited the collection of essays Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited with Rick Moody. Steinke has written extensively on art and literature and was a frequent contributor to Spin Ma...
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Darcey Steinke is an American novelist and journalist. The daughter of a Lutheran minister, she was born on 25 April 1962. She is the author of four novels (Up Through the Water, Suicide Blonde, Jesus Saves, and Milk) and the memoir Easter Everywhere. She also co-edited the collection of essays Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited with Rick Moody. Steinke has written extensively on art and literature and was a frequent contributor to Spin Magazine, covering the David Koresh Branch Davidian story and contributing a 1997 cover story on Kurt Cobain. In addition, she has a web project called blindspot, which was part of the Whitney Biennial in 2000.
In an essay in the Boston Review, Steinke wrote about the process of writing Milk, an erotic novel exploring sexual and religious longing:
"In our culture there is a sense that sex is without God, that God forsakes, that this single activity in life is not infused with God's presence. This may be why readers are so uncomfortable with sex...
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