Q&A: Callie Wright on Love All and the Afterlife of a 1960s Sex
Scandal   Photograph by Justin Bishop (Wright).  The author,
pictured with the book, out July 9.  Where does a scandal go
when it dies? In Callie Wright’s tennis-tinged, generational
portrait Love All—out this week from Henry Holt, and featured in
the July issue of Vanity Fair—the author takes a real setting
(Cooperstown, New York) and a very real sex scandal (publication
of 1962’s The Sex Cure, a juicy tell-all about neighbors bedding
neighbors) and watches as its bodice-ripper bile seeps through
three generations of a fictional local family. Wright, a
reporter-researcher at V.F., first started Love All—her debut
novel—in 2005, but began mulling The Sex Cure’s impact when she
heard about the book as a “completely captivated” 13-year-old.
The Sex Cure’s author, Isabel Moore, was essentially exiled in
scandal after publication—as the local police told the
Schenectady Gazette in 1962, “[t]hat book shook the town up real
well”—and most remaining cop