Fabulous lineup this Wednesday May 16th!
IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH at 8 PM
AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey, http://www.happyendinglounge.com)
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
A diverse mix of authors and styles take erotica to a whole new level, from fiction to romance to letter-writing, mystery, and more. Featuring Sarah Iverson (Iris, Messenger), Jackie Kessler (Hell’s Belles), Min Jin Lee (Free Food for Millionaires), Samara O’Shea (For the Love of Letters, letterlover.net), Jerry Rodriguez (The Devil’s Mambo) and Dana Vachon (Mergers and Acquisitions), along with host and curator Rachel Kramer Bussel (She’s on Top, He’s on Top, Caught Looking). Free candy and mini cupcakes will be served. Authors’ books will be available for sale by Mobile Libris.
In the Flesh is a monthly reading series hosted at the appropriately named Happy Ending Lounge, and features the city's best erotic writers sharing stories to get you hot and bothered, hosted and curated by acclaimed erotic writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel. From erotic poetry to down and dirty smut, these authors get naked on the page and will make you lust after them and their words. Since its debut in October 2005, In the Flesh has featured such authors as Laura Antoniou, Andy Mo Beasley, Lily Burana, Jessica Cutler, Stephen Elliott, Polly Frost, Gael Greene, Andy Horwitz, Debra Hyde, Maxim Jakubowski, Emily Scarlet Kramer of CAKE, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Edith Layton, Sofia Quintero, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Grant Stoddard, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, Susan Wright, and many others. The series has gotten press attention from Escape (Hong Kong), The L Magazine, New York Magazine, Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette. This is not Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending Reading Series.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com, and wrote the popular Lusty Lady column for The Village Voice. Her erotic stories have been published in over 100 anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and she’s edited 13 erotica anthologies, most recently He’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Male dominance and Female Submission, She’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Female Dominance and Male Submission, Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. Rachel has also written for AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK, Gothamist, Mediabistro, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York and Velvetpark.
www.rachelkramerbussel.com
Sarah Iverson writes comic essays about vibrators, Buddhism, and duck confit. She also writes novels for children under the name Sarah Deming. Her first novel, Iris, Messenger, will be published in May by Harcourt. It tells the story of Iris, a twelve-year-old girl who meets the Greek gods in suburban Philadelphia. Before she was a writer, Sarah was a Golden Gloves boxing champion, a chef, and a yoga teacher. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Ethan.
Jackie Kessler is the author of Hell’s Belles, a story about a succubus who runs away from Hell, hides on Earth as an exotic dancer, and learns the hard way about true love. Sex, strippers, and demons⎯what's not to like? Contrary to popular belief, Jackie did not work her way through college by stripping. She did, however, offer to buy her husband a lap dance, all in the name of research. Jackie lives in upstate New York with her husband, two sons, two cats, and 9,000 comic books.
www.jackiekessler.com
Min Jin Lee went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She then attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York before leaving to write full time. She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her work has also been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and anthologized in To Be Real (Doubleday, 1995) and Breeder (Seal Press, 2001). She lives in New York with her husband and son. Free Food for Millionaires, her first novel, will be published by Warner Books on May 22, 2007.
Samara O'Shea has been writing letters since the restless age of seven. She launched LetterLover.net in April 2005 to save the art from extinction. The website led to her first book For the Love of Letters: A 21st-Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing from the Elegant to the Erotic (HarperCollins, May 2007). Her work has also appeared in Woman's Day, Country Living, All You, and Pittsburgh magazine as well as the online magazines HappenMag.com and Hackwriters.com. She has appeared on Today in New York and on National Public Radio's the Kojo Nnambi Show.
www.letterlover.net
Jerry A. Rodriguez is writer and director whose plays have been staged Off-Broadway at the Actor’s Studio, The Nuyorican Poet’s Café and The Village Gate, among others. Rodriguez’s groundbreaking short film, El Deseo/The Desire, was produced under the sponsorship of Columbia Pictures and premiered at the prestigious Film Society of Lincoln Center. Rodriguez has a three-book deal with Kensington Books. His debut novel The Devil’s Mambo, is the first in the Nicholas Esperanza crime thriller series. He also has short stories appearing in the upcoming anthologies Darker Mask and Bronx Biannual 2.
www.jerryarodriguez.com
Dana Vachon was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, and raised in Chappaqua, New York. His first novel, Mergers and Acquisitions, was published in April by Riverhead. He attended Duke University, graduating, as he claims, "cum nihilo" in 2002. Following graduation, Vachon landed a job at J. P. Morgan as an analyst and began work on this novel. His writing has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Men's Vogue, The New York Times, and Salon.
www.jsspenser.com
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH at 8 PM
AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey, http://www.happyendinglounge.com)
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
A diverse mix of authors and styles take erotica to a whole new level, from fiction to romance to letter-writing, mystery, and more. Featuring Sarah Iverson (Iris, Messenger), Jackie Kessler (Hell’s Belles), Min Jin Lee (Free Food for Millionaires), Samara O’Shea (For the Love of Letters, letterlover.net), Jerry Rodriguez (The Devil’s Mambo) and Dana Vachon (Mergers and Acquisitions), along with host and curator Rachel Kramer Bussel (She’s on Top, He’s on Top, Caught Looking). Free candy and mini cupcakes will be served. Authors’ books will be available for sale by Mobile Libris.
In the Flesh is a monthly reading series hosted at the appropriately named Happy Ending Lounge, and features the city's best erotic writers sharing stories to get you hot and bothered, hosted and curated by acclaimed erotic writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel. From erotic poetry to down and dirty smut, these authors get naked on the page and will make you lust after them and their words. Since its debut in October 2005, In the Flesh has featured such authors as Laura Antoniou, Andy Mo Beasley, Lily Burana, Jessica Cutler, Stephen Elliott, Polly Frost, Gael Greene, Andy Horwitz, Debra Hyde, Maxim Jakubowski, Emily Scarlet Kramer of CAKE, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Edith Layton, Sofia Quintero, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Grant Stoddard, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, Susan Wright, and many others. The series has gotten press attention from Escape (Hong Kong), The L Magazine, New York Magazine, Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette. This is not Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending Reading Series.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com, and wrote the popular Lusty Lady column for The Village Voice. Her erotic stories have been published in over 100 anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and she’s edited 13 erotica anthologies, most recently He’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Male dominance and Female Submission, She’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Female Dominance and Male Submission, Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. Rachel has also written for AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK, Gothamist, Mediabistro, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York and Velvetpark.
www.rachelkramerbussel.com
Sarah Iverson writes comic essays about vibrators, Buddhism, and duck confit. She also writes novels for children under the name Sarah Deming. Her first novel, Iris, Messenger, will be published in May by Harcourt. It tells the story of Iris, a twelve-year-old girl who meets the Greek gods in suburban Philadelphia. Before she was a writer, Sarah was a Golden Gloves boxing champion, a chef, and a yoga teacher. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Ethan.
Jackie Kessler is the author of Hell’s Belles, a story about a succubus who runs away from Hell, hides on Earth as an exotic dancer, and learns the hard way about true love. Sex, strippers, and demons⎯what's not to like? Contrary to popular belief, Jackie did not work her way through college by stripping. She did, however, offer to buy her husband a lap dance, all in the name of research. Jackie lives in upstate New York with her husband, two sons, two cats, and 9,000 comic books.
www.jackiekessler.com
Min Jin Lee went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She then attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York before leaving to write full time. She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her work has also been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and anthologized in To Be Real (Doubleday, 1995) and Breeder (Seal Press, 2001). She lives in New York with her husband and son. Free Food for Millionaires, her first novel, will be published by Warner Books on May 22, 2007.
Samara O'Shea has been writing letters since the restless age of seven. She launched LetterLover.net in April 2005 to save the art from extinction. The website led to her first book For the Love of Letters: A 21st-Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing from the Elegant to the Erotic (HarperCollins, May 2007). Her work has also appeared in Woman's Day, Country Living, All You, and Pittsburgh magazine as well as the online magazines HappenMag.com and Hackwriters.com. She has appeared on Today in New York and on National Public Radio's the Kojo Nnambi Show.
www.letterlover.net
Jerry A. Rodriguez is writer and director whose plays have been staged Off-Broadway at the Actor’s Studio, The Nuyorican Poet’s Café and The Village Gate, among others. Rodriguez’s groundbreaking short film, El Deseo/The Desire, was produced under the sponsorship of Columbia Pictures and premiered at the prestigious Film Society of Lincoln Center. Rodriguez has a three-book deal with Kensington Books. His debut novel The Devil’s Mambo, is the first in the Nicholas Esperanza crime thriller series. He also has short stories appearing in the upcoming anthologies Darker Mask and Bronx Biannual 2.
www.jerryarodriguez.com
Dana Vachon was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, and raised in Chappaqua, New York. His first novel, Mergers and Acquisitions, was published in April by Riverhead. He attended Duke University, graduating, as he claims, "cum nihilo" in 2002. Following graduation, Vachon landed a job at J. P. Morgan as an analyst and began work on this novel. His writing has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Men's Vogue, The New York Times, and Salon.
www.jsspenser.com
posted by Rachel at Monday, May 14, 2007
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