I'm having a super fun, free book party tomorrow night for my brand-new anthology with 27 HOT stories,
Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women, Thursday, April 10th from 7 - 9 pm in NYC at
Sutra Lounge, 16 First Avenue off First Street, Free (and a San Francisco one April 28th 7-9 at
Cafe Royale) - there will be boob cake to honor the nipple on the book's coer from
Moist and Tasty, readings by me (
Rachel Kramer Bussel) and contributors
Tsaurah Litzky, Sofia Quintero, Lillian Ann Slugocki and
Suki Bishop. Plus drink specials and books for sale!
IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
THURSDAY, APRIL 17th 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
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com
Logo by
Molly CrabappleA night of fabulous female authors from across the sexual spectrum (and world). Let
Honey B., author of
Sexcapades, seduce you before memoirists
Sarah Thyre (
Dark at the Roots) and
Suzanne Portnoy (
The Not So Invisible Woman) share their real life sex stories.
Marie Lyn Bernard and
Sofia Quintero, contributors to
Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women, edited by In The Flesh host and curator Rachel Kramer Bussel, will read from their stories in this brand-new collection. Hosted and curated by
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
Dirty Girls, Yes, Sir, Yes, Ma’am). Celebrate the release of Rachel’s new book
Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women, which will be available for sale and signing, along with work by other contributors from
Mobile Libris. Free candy 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 Portnoy, Sofia 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.
HoneyB, HoneyB, aka Mary Morrison, is a happily single mother, a poet and lecturer and a
New York Times, Wall Street Journal and an
Essence best-selling author. Just as every woman has an inner child, every woman also has an inner woman. The HoneyB, through her explicit writings, wants to pollinate every woman with knowledge about sexuality and self-love and her objective is to help women blossom into goddesses. Sexiness is an attitude HoneyB wants every woman to embrace and express openly. HoneyB lives and loves as much as she possibly can in Oakland, California. Sexcapades is her first erotica title.
Single Husbands is the second in the HoneyB series, due out in Spring 2009.
www.marymorrison.comMarie "Riese" Lyn Bernard is a half-Jewish, half-Midwestern Farmer's-Daughter freelance aspirant. She blogs at This Girl Called Automatic Win (
marielynbernard.blogspot.com) and recaps homosexy television at Automatic Straddle (
>theroadbeststraddled.blogspot.com) and for The L Word Online. Her work has appeared in
The Bigger the Better, the Tighter the Sweater: 21 Funny Women On Beauty, Body Image, and Other Hazards of Being Female, Best Women's Erotica 2005, Best American Erotica 2007, the Lambda Literary Award-winning
Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments, Marie Claire magazine,
Curve Magazine, OurChart.com, Suspect Thoughts, nerve.com, Clean Sheets, Fresh Off the Vine, Conversely, Desdmona.com, and
The Sarah Lawrence Review. She's currently writing a memoir about her super fascinating life on earth.
www.marielynbernard.com
Rachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at
Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for 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
Rubber Sex,
Yes, Sir, Yes, Ma’am, Dirty Girls, and
Best Sex Writing 2008. Rachel has also written for
AVN, Bust, Cosmopolitan UK, Gothamist, Mediabistro,
Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York and
Velvetpark.www.rachelkramerbussel.com
Suzanne Portnoy has been an entertainment publicist for twelve years. Divorced and with two children, aged 13 and 15, she is formerly from New York and now lives in London, UK. Attractive and finally a size 8 after twenty years of yo-yo dieting, she is happily single and spends her spare time writing, having sex and acting as a one-woman car pool service. She is the author of
The Not So Invisible Woman and
Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoir, both published by Virgin Books.
www.suzanneportnoy.comSofía Quintero is the author of several novels and short stories that cross genres. Under the pen name Black Artemis, she wrote the hip hop novels
Explicit Content, Picture Me Rollin’ and
Burn. She is also a contributor to two other erotica collections:
Juicy Mangos, an anthology of short stories by Latina writers, and
Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica.Sofía is also the author of the novel
Divas Don’t Yield and contributed novellas to the “chica lit” anthologies
Friday Night Chicas and
Names I Call My Sister. As an activist, she co-founded Chica Luna Productions (chicaluna.com), a nonprofit organization that seeks to identify, develop and support women of color who wish to create socially conscious entertainment. She is also a founding creative partner of Sister Outsider Entertainment, a multimedia production company that aims to create edgy but quality entertainment for urban audiences. To stay in touch with Sofía and learn about her works-in-progress, public appearances and latest rants and raves by visit her at
blackartemis.com, sisteroutsider.biz or
myspace.com/sofiaquintero.
Sarah Thyre is the author of the memoir
Dark at the Roots, which she is currently developing for television with Warner Brothers. An actress and writer, she has appeared on
Late Night with Conan O'Brien, TV Funhouse, Upright Citizens Brigade, and as the gender-compromised Coach Cherry Wolf on
Strangers with Candy. She has performed her own work at the UCB Theatres in New York and Los Angeles, Sit 'n' Spin at the Comedy Central Stage, and on Public Radio International. She is the voice of Mary Frances on
The Mighty B!, a cartoon premiering on Nickelodeon this April. Sarah lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids.
www.sarahthyre.comIN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
TRUE SEX CONFESSIONS NIGHT
THURSDAY, May 15th 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: 212-334-9676Our third night of
True Sex Confessions promises lots of revealing, naughty, crazy sex stories. Featuring
Andrea Askowitz (author of the memoir
My Miserable, Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy), burlesque babe
Cherry Bomb, Will Doig (Editor,
Nerve.com),
Tracie Egan (Editor,
Jezebel.com, One D at a Time),
Ilona Paris (author of
You Know You Love It), and comedian
Giulia Rozzi (Stripped Stories). Free candy and cupcakes will be served. Hosted and curated by
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
Dirty Girls, Yes, Sir, Yes, Ma’am). Free candy 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 Portnoy, Sofia Quintero, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Grant Stoddard, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, Dana Vachon, Veronica Vera, Susan Wright, Zane, 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.
Andrea Askowitz is the author of the just released book
My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy (Cleis Press). You gotta read it. She is also the producer of the true stories reading series, Lip Service in Miami, Florida. And she's sometimes an adjunct professor at Florida International University. And she's a mom.
http://www.andreaaskowitz.com
Rachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at
Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for 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
Rubber Sex,Yes, Sir, Yes, Ma’am, Dirty Girls, and
Best Sex Writing 2008. Rachel has also written for
AVN, Bust, Cosmopolitan, Gothamist, Mediabistro,
Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, Velvetpark, and
Zink.www.rachelkramerbussel.comConceived in the throes of a passionate one-night stand between bell hooks and RuPaul, art, activism, and a love of glitter is built into
Cherry Bomb's sordid DNA. She currently holds the crown as The Bad Girl of Brooklyn Burlesque, and you can catch her raising eyebrows at the likes of The Slipper Room, Mo Pitkins, and with Wasabassco Burlesque. She also writes dirty/sexy/emo at her blog, The Queen of Cream, at
www.cherrybombnyc.com.Will Doig is the editor of
Nerve.com. His work has appeared in
New York magazine,
The Advocate, Out, and
Highlights for Children. He lives in Brooklyn.
Tracie Egan is an editor at
Jezebel.com and writes the blog
One D at a Time.
Dominatrix and therapist
Ilona Paris holds a master's degree in counseling psychology from Cambridge College in Massachusetts ad is the author of
You Know You Love It: Lessons in Sexual Mischief. She has a private practice outside Boston, where she specializes in alternative sexual lifestyles. She is on the advisory board committee for the National Leather Alliance Domestic Violence Project.
http://ilona-thekinktherapist.blogspot.com/2007/06/accepting-your-kink.htmlGiulia Rozzi is a NYC based comedian, writer, and actress originally from Boston. She is the co-host/producer of the popular sex-themed monthly storytelling event Stripped Stories at Comix NY and has been seen on Mtv, Vh1.com and in sketches on Jimmy Kimmel. As a writer she's contributed to
Playgirl, Glamour, Lifetimetv.com, Huffingtonpost, 236.com, and Gawker. She is also a co-producer of the East Coast incarnations of the hit national show Mortified and was an associate editor and a contributor for Mortified books.
www.giuliarozzi.comIN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
GLBT NIGHT
THURSDAY, June 19th 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: 212-334-9676In The Flesh’s third annual
GLBT Night offers up a wide range of the queer writing, from
Cris Beam reading her entry “dyke” from
Ellen Sussman’s anthology
Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex, to
Selfish and Perverse author
Bob Smith, spoken word performer
Aimee Herman, and erotica writers
Amie M. Evans and
Cecilia Tan (reading from her new collection
White Flames), both based in Massachusetts, and
Charlie Vazquez (
Best Gay Erotica).Hosted by
Rachel Kramer Bussel (editor of
First-Timers, Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica, Up All Night). Free candy 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 Portnoy, Sofia Quintero, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Grant Stoddard, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, Dana Vachon, Veronica Vera, Susan Wright, Zane, 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.
Cris Beam is an author and educator living in New York City. She wrote the book
Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T (Harcourt, 2007) about transgender street kids in Los Angeles and has written for several national magazines as well as the public radio program “This American Life.” Cris currently teaches creative writing at Columbia University, New York University, the New School and Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility in New York. She’s now working on a book about foster care in the U.S.
www.crisbeam.comRachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at
Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for 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
Rubber Sex, Yes, Sir, Yes, Ma’am, Dirty Girls, and
Best Sex Writing 2008. Rachel has also written for
AVN, Bust, Cosmopolitan, Gothamist, Mediabistro,
Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, Velvetpark, and
Zink.www.rachelkramerbussel.comAmie M. Evans is a widely published creative nonfiction and literary erotica writer, experienced workshop provider, and a retired burlesque and high-femme drag performer. She also writes gaymale erotica under a pen name. Evans is on the board of directors for Saints and Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival. She graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in Literature and is currently working on her MLA at Harvard. Evans has offered workshops at numerous conferences and universities, including Golden Crown Lesbian Conference; Plattsburgh State University; Wellesley College; Brandeis University; Cornell University and MIT. Evans is currently working on her full length memoir. She offers private and group writing instruction. She can be reached at pussywhippedproductions@hotmail.com.
Aimee Herman recently had a small volume of poetry with accompanying spoken word cd, self diagnosed lactose intolerance published by Baobob Tree Press. She has two other chapbooks of poetry,
tastes like cheesecake (Butcher Shop Press) and
if these thighs could talk (RoseWater Publications) and a spoken word cd, performance anxiety, available through
cdbaby.com/AimeeHerman. Her erotica has been featured in oystersandchocolate.com and
Cliterature Journal. Her three favorite things include peanut butter, black licorice, and Canadians (one in particular).
Carly Milne began her professional writing career at age 14 and hasn't looked back since. Her work has appeared in
Glamour, Variety, AOL,
Stuff, Maxim, Yoga Journal, Whole Life Times, Bitch Magazine and more. Milne has also had essays published in
Virgin Territory (Three Rivers Press),
Best American Sex Essays 2005 (Cleis Press) and
Hooking Up: You'll Never Make Love In This Town Again Again (Phoenix Books), and curated the anthology
Naked Ambition (Carroll & Graf). Her sexual memoirs,
Sexography, was published by Phoenix Books in 2007. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is the curator of In The Flesh: L.A.
www.carlymilne.com
Bob Smith has appeared on
The Tonight Show and had his own HBO Comedy Half-hour. His first book,
Openly Bob, won the Lambda Literary Award for humor. His first novel,
Selfish and Perverse, about three gay men and one lesbian in Alaska, was released in September and has been nominated for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award from the Publishing Triangle. Armistead Maupin has said about his new book, "A thoroughly seductive and satisfying read. It makes you laugh, it makes you horny, it makes you want to fish for salmon."He can be reached at Bobscomedy@aol.com.
http://www.myspace.com/bobscomedy
Cecilia Tan is “simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature" according to Susie Bright. She is the author of
White Flames (due in May from Running Press),
Black Feathers, Edge Plays, and
Telepaths Don't Need Safewords and the founder of Circlet Press.
ceciliatan.comCharlie Vazquez is the author of the queer punk adventure novel
Buzz and Israel (Fireking Press, 2005), the fiction collection
Business as Unusual (Fireking Press, 2007), screenplays, queer art essays and various published erotica stories, including contributions to three Alyson Books anthologies:
Straight? 2 (2003),
Best Gay Love Stories: NYC (2006) and
Fast Balls (2007). He is featured in Cleis Press'
Best Gay Erotica 2008 (2007) and the essay anthology
Queer and Catholic (Taylor and Francis, 2008). He'll be re-publishing a second edition of
Buzz and Israel and finishing his second novel in 2008. He currently resides in his hometown of New York City, where he also manages the website for diva-chanteuse Diamanda Galás. He can be reached at firekingpress@yahoo.com
Labels: lineup
Bottoms Up: Spanking Good Stories - click here to read introduction and TOC
Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories
(click above to watch book trailer/read introduction + TOC)
Yes, Sir: Erotic Stories of Male Dominance
Best Sex Writing 2008
