The Embodied Eroticism of Louis Fratino’s Art

The Embodied Eroticism of Louis Fratino’s Art

PRATO, Italy — Earlier this year, something drew me back to the diaries of Anaïs Nin. I’d read several volumes decades ago. Tracing the French-American author’s libertine, literary life in Paris and New York starting in the early 1930s, these were especially popular after the steamy film adaptation of an early diary, Henry and June, came out in 1990. Rereading them, I’m again drawn into Nin’s exquisite prose, her lush descriptions of place, her …