Plot Summary
The Seven Minutes chronicles a fictional obscenity trial of a banned book, The Seven Minutes, purported to be the thoughts in a woman's mind during seven minutes of sexual intercourse. Wallace's extensively researched work contains numerous (attributed) quotes and presents well-supported arguments for both sides of his fictional debate.
Maurice Girodias of the Olympia Press, who was interviewed by Wallace during research for his book, published a novel, The Original Seven Minutes, purporting to be the pornographic book described in Wallace's novel. Following legal action by Wallace, the book was withdrawn, and later republished as The Seven Erotic Minutes with the purported author's name and all references to Wallace removed.
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