June 20th is the next In The Flesh

IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
2ND ANNUAL GLBT EROTICA NIGHT
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH 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

This Gay Pride month, come celebrate queerness in all its rainbow of colors with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender erotica from the country’s finest queer authors at In The Flesh! Featuring Radclyffe (Erotic Interludes, Bold Strokes Books), Jolie du Pre (Iridescence), JD Glass (Punk Like Me), Michael Luongo (The Voyeur, Between the Palms), Jay Lygon (Hot Cops), with a five-minute video of Peggy Munson reading from her novel Origami Striptease. Hosted by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Up All Night, Glamour Girls, First-Timers). Free cupcakes and candy will be served.

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), Flavorpill, The L Magazine, New York Magazine, Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette, and has been praised by Dr. Ruth. 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 several 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, Huffington Post, Mediabistro, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York and Velvetpark.
www.rachelkramerbussel.com

Jolie du Pre is a writer of lesbian erotica and lesbian erotic romance. Her stories have appeared on numerous websites, in e-book and in print in Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 and more. Jolie is the editor of Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica, published by Alyson Books. She is also the founder of GLBT Promo (www.glbtpromo.com) a promotional group for GLBT erotica and erotic romance.
www.joliedupre.com

JD Glass, lead singer of “Life Underwater” and inveterate doodler of eye-candy, is the author of Lambda Literary Award finalist Punk Like Me, its follow up Punk And Zen, and has had short stories published in Erotic Interludes 4 and 5 (all published by Bold Strokes Books). She lives in the city of her choice and birth, New York, with her beloved partner. While waiting for the June 2007 release of Red Light, JD’s currently writing her next novel, American Goth, and penning reviews for Prism Comics (titles will include L&R, the final story-arc for SiP, Small Favors, Jane’s World, and Max & Lilly. Oh, and a little X-Men because, hey, why not).

Michael Luongo is a New York based freelance writer, editor and photographer. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Advocate, The Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg News, Gay City News and many other publications. He is Senior Editor for Haworth’s Out in the World gay travel collection, putting out books like the erotic collection Between the Palms and Gay Travels in the Muslim World. He writes the Frommer’s Buenos Aires, and travels primarily in Latin America and the Middle East, preferring unusual destinations where being gay is challenging such as Afghanistan. Alyson Books recently published his first novel, The Voyeur, about a gay sex researcher working in New York in the time of Giuliani, loosely based on his own experiences.
www.michaelluongo.com

Jay Lygon’s stories can be found in Hot Cops, Inside Him, and on Clean Sheets and the Erotica Readers and Writer’s Association websites. Her novel, Chaos Magic, was recently published by Torquere Press.

Peggy Munson wrote the Project Queerlit-winning novel, Origami Striptease, and edited the acclaimed anthology, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She has published poetry in venues such as the Best American Poetry 2003, Literature and Medicine, Marginalia, the Spoon River Poetry Review, Sinister Wisdom, and 13th Moon. She is the most-published writer in the Best Lesbian Erotica series and her literary erotica has also been chosen for two editions of Best American Erotica.
www.peggymunson.com

Radclyffe is the author or editor of over twenty-five lesbian novels and anthologies, including the 2005 Lambda Literary Award winners Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments and Distant Shores, Silent Thunder. She has selections in Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 and 2007, Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, First-Timers, Ultimate Undies: Erotic Stories About Lingerie and Underwear, and Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. She is also the president of Bold Strokes Books, an independent LGBT publishing company.