{"id":317,"date":"2025-10-27T12:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:53:06","slug":"erotomania-a-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Erotomania: A Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been working on a show pilot based on the acclaimed novel Erotomania: A Romance<\/em> by Francis Levy. Check out the trailer here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Erotomania<\/em> is about two monogamous sex addicts. James Moran and Monica Cole are animal-like creatures who meet over anonymous sex. Eventually food, art, television, and even the therapy that is supposed to help them all become compulsions. As they develop an awareness of each other and evolve, they’re forced to confront their traumas and addictions.<\/p>\n

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The New Yorker<\/em> and New York Times’<\/em> Daphne Merkin writes: \u201cErotomania<\/em>…is unlike anything I’ve ever read. It offers a hermeneutics of the erotic, by turns shameless, funny, romantic and poignant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Village Voice<\/em> writes of Francis’ book: “[A] hilariously satirical debut novel. Miller, Lawrence, and Genet stop by like proud ancestors… But it’s a more recent generation of mischievous deviant writers (Nicholson Baker, Mary Gaitskill) that truly looms large \u2014 Erotomania’s<\/em> closest predecessor might be Baker’s The Fermata.<\/em> [An] ambitious book… [A] biting satire.”<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Times<\/em>:
\n\u201cSex is familiar, but it\u2019s perennial, and Levy makes it fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Time Out Chicago:<\/em>
\n\u201cA high-minded yet slapstick take on erotic desire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bookslut:<\/em>
\n\u201cLevy seems to have an eye for detail for all that is absurd, commonly human, and uniquely American.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Erotomania<\/em> is currently being produced as an eight-part animated series by Designomotion. Art and hand-drawn animation is prepared in Vietnam, with digital animation done in the United States. Show creators Francis Levy and Joseph Silver attended Columbia University and recently collaborated on the graphic novel version<\/a> of Francis’ novel The Wormhole Society.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been working on a show pilot based on the acclaimed novel Erotomania: A Romance by Francis Levy. Check out the trailer here. Erotomania is about two monogamous sex addicts. James Moran and Monica Cole are animal-like creatures who meet over anonymous sex. Eventually food, art, television, and even the therapy that is supposed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designomotion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}