Sexy time.

The San Francisco Bay Guardian includes Live Nude Girl in its list of 10 Sexy Books Published in 2009, where by “sexy” they mean: “If sexy is to be taken by its dictionary definition as ’sexually interesting or exciting,’ then the following ten decidedly qualify. Some are sexy for their potent ability to raise readerly temperatures, others, for their intellectually seductive, mentally stimulating faculties. Despite a somewhat disparate array of themes and subjects, each book is capable of producing the feeling that compels readers to, as my aunt puts it, ‘close their legs and open a book’: the ecstasy of reading.” Of LNG, they say, “In this contemplative book, Rooney ruminates on working in the buff and, in the process, finds something to say about Roland Barthes, Judeo-Christianity, and the Terra Cotta warriors of China. Somehow, she succeeds in making such declarations convincing; Rooney did earn money being naked, but her memoir cloaks that nudity in layers of meaning.” Check out the whole list here.