On Friday, December 14th, is a special, non-In The Flesh event that features erotica and free cupcakes - my book party for
Sex and Candy: 22 Succulent Stories. We'll have six kinds of FREE cupcakes on hand from
Kumqat Cupcakery, plus plenty of candy, sexy storytelling, erotic Mad Libs, and more! Co-hosted with
Sex and Candy contributor
Jen Dziura, at
Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, 7-9, December 14th, FREE, 21+.
Check it out below, and please come to the last In The Flesh of the year on December 20th!
IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20th at 8 PM
AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey or F/V to 2nd Avenue, http://www.happyendinglounge.com)
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676Celebrate the sexy holiday spirit with erotic writing from
Judy McGuire (
How Not to Date),
Abiola Abrams (
Dare),
M. David Hornbuckle (
The Salvation of Billy Wayne Carter),
Marcelle Manhattan (Sexegesis),
Topaz (
Prometheus magazine), and
Molly X reading erotic haiku. Hosted by
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
Best Sex Writing 2008, He’s on Top, She’s on Top). Door prizes include copies of Alison Tyler’s
Naughty or Nice: Christmas Erotica Stories. Free candy canes and cupcakes 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, Mo Beasley, Lily Burana, Jessica Cutler, Stephen Elliott, Valerie Frankel, Polly Frost, Gael Greene, Andy Horwitz, Debra Hyde, Maxim Jakubowski, Emily Scarlet Kramer of CAKE, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Edith Layton, Logan Levkoff, Suzanne PortnoySofia Quintero, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Grant Stoddard, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, Dana Vachon, Veronica Vera, Susan Wright, and many others. The series has gotten press attention from the
New York Times’s UrbanEye,
Escape (Hong Kong), Flavorpill,
The L Magazine, New York Magazine,
Philadelphia City Paper, Time Out New York, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette, and has been praised by Dr. Ruth. This is not Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending Reading Series.
Abiola Abrams is the host of BET’S The Best Shorts. A writer and filmmaker who gives motivational talks, her artistic films, ranging from edgy 'chick flicks' to socially conscious docs, investigate the themes of gender, race and empowerment. The goal of all of Abiola's work is to use pop culture entertainment to inspire: politically, emotionally and sexually. Abiola's writing is featured in the anthology
A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer by Eve Ensler. Her first novel,
Dare, was recently published by Simon & Schuster. Abiola has BFA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
www.thegoddessfactory.com
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 numerous anthologies, most recently
Best Sex Writing 2008, Hide and Seek, Crossdressing, He’s on Top and
She’s on Top. 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.comM. David Hornbuckle is a full-time writer and musician, originally from Birmingham, Alabama. His fiction has been published in
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Isms, Peek, Air in the Paragraph Line and
Astarte. His novella
The Salvation of Billy Wayne Carter will be published as an e-book by Cantarabooks in October 2007. Hornbuckle now lives in NYC where he is finishing up a novel and is the leader of the M. David Hornbuckle Dixieland Space Orchestra.
www.mdhornbuckle.netMarcelle Manhattan is the author of the popular new blog Sexegesis, which combines fetish erotica and sexual politics. Since starting her blogging career in September, Marcelle has received both critical acclaim and media attention. She will publish her first short story, "Second Date," in an upcoming anthology edited by Susie Bright. Marcelle holds a Master's degree in literature and almost received her Ph.D., but was saved by a desire to write smut in New York City and run around wearing a lot of vinyl.
sexegesis.blogspot.comJudy McGuire writes a sex and love advice column called Dategirl for the
Seattle Weekly. She recently had an essay entitled “Cohabitatiion Hesitation” published in the anthology,
Single State of the Union, and is ecstatic to announce that her new book,
How Not to Date, is being published this January. Remarkably, though she interviewed scads of people, nobody has yet to come close to beating her tale of the worst date ever.
www.dategirl.net
Topaz is multi-talented, being primarily a cabaret singer/performance artist, who recently ventured into performing as a serious (yet comedic) actress. She is also a writer, proof-reader/editor, and sex educator. In her "spare time" Topaz works at Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls, as the first Dean of Night Life. She recently had a short story published in Prometheus, the magazine of The Eulenspiegel Society, which won Third Prize in their submissive literary contest. The title is “Stranger Than Fiction,” and she will read it at In The Flesh.
Molly X is a writer and editor who lives in the swinging borough of Queens. For the past year, Molly X has been writing reviews of the latest tech products. In haiku form. Since then, she has found the 5-7-5 rhythm slowly taking hold of her daily life. A recent In the Flesh reading awakened the erotic haikuista struggling to free herself from the straitlaced journalist, and inspired a number of very sexy, minimalist poems, which we'll hear tonight.
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