The Best American Erotica 1997 - Softcover

Bright, Susie

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9780684818238: The Best American Erotica 1997

Softcover

ISBN 10: 068481823X ISBN 13: 9780684818238

Publisher: Touchstone, 1997

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The Best American Erotica 1997 is the ideal collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature. Edited by Susie Bright, whom the Utne Reader calls "one of the leading thinkers and visionaries of our time," this fifth annual edition of a bestselling series brings together the most outstanding erotic writing of the year.
CONTRIBUTORS - Lauren P. Burka, Ivy Topiary, Mark Stuertz, Thomas Roche, Rose White and Eric Albert, Bob Vickery, Tsaurah Litzky, loana dp valencia, Nancy Kilpatrick, Michael Lowenthal, Serena Moloch, Marcy Sheiner, Stephen Spotte, Simon Sheppard, Joe Maynard, Bill Brent, Ted Blumberg, Lucy Taylor, E. R. Stewart, Isobel Bird, Allegra Long, M. Christian

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About the Author:

Susie Bright is the editor of The Best American Erotica series and host of the weekly audio show In Bed with Susie Bright on Audible.com. She has been a columnist for Playboy and Salon, and has been profiled in USA TODAY, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. An international lecturer on sexuality and feminism, she won the 2004 Writer of the Year Award at the Erotic Awards in London. Ms. Bright lives in Santa Cruz, California.

From Kirkus Reviews:

The fifth installment of Bright's annual offers further evidence that there is some very inventive erotica being produced at the moment--along with a good deal of flat, rather formulaic (albeit exuberantly frank) work. Mark Stuertz's ``Lunch'' offers an ingenious, pungent variation on voyeurism; Marcy Sheiner's ``What?'' nicely catches the complex emotional issues (of honesty, of trust) that surround sex; M. Christian's ``How Coyote Stole the Sun'' offers an ingenious, and deeply weird, x-rated variation on the trickster figure of Coyote, mingling strangeness and sex. While the usual erotic archetypes figure in the collection (threesomes; demon lovers; exhaustively described S&M games), the tales only really come alive when they offer truly startling variations on the norm or when they give some space to developing a sense of character. An intermittently stimulating gathering. -- Copyright �1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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