If you've never been to In The Flesh, or have and liked it (or even have and didn't like it), you SO don't want to miss tonight's extra-special massive lineup and special guests
Susie Bright and
Maxim Jakubowksi. We've also got 80 mini Sugar Sweet Sunshine cupcakes, Ferrer Rocher chocolates, candy cane cookies, mini peanut butter cups, chips and giveaways galore (including sex toys)! We'll go from 7:30-10.
Questions: email me at rachelravenous at gmail.com (fastest email to reach me)
See you tonight!
IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
SUSIE BRIGHT NIGHT
February 19th at 7:30 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: 212-334-9676
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com
The legendary author, editor, activist and sexual provocateur
Susie Bright joins us from Santa Cruz, California to celebrate her beautiful new hardcover anthology
X: The Erotic Treasury (Chronicle Books), which includes
a story set at In The Flesh which you will hear! Joining Susie will be contributors
Paula Bomer, Ernie Conrick, Martha Garvey, Nicholas Kaufmann, Tsaurah Litzky, Marcelle Manhattan, Lisa Montanarelli, Chelsea Summers and host/curator
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
Best Sex Writing 2008, Spanked). Special guest
Maxim Jakubowski, editor of the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, also joins us from London. Note special start time (for February only): 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7. Arriving early is highly recommended. Books will be available for sale by
Mobile Libris. There will be a Q&A with Susie and book signing after the reading.
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,
New York Observer, Philadelphia City Paper, Time Out New York, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette, and has been praised by Dr. Ruth.
Susie Bright is the editor of
X: The Erotic Treasury as well as the author and editor of multiple best-sellers on the themes of sexual politics and erotic literature, including
The Best American Erotica series,
Full Exposure, and
The Sexual State of the Union. She blogs on sex and politics every day at susiebright.com ad hosts the weekly audio show In Bed with Susie Bright at
Audible.comsusiebright.comRachel Kramer Bussel is an author, editor, blogger and reading series host. She is Senior Editor at
Penthouse Variations and a former sex columnist for
The Village Voice. She’s edited numerous anthologies, most recently
Best Sex Writing 2009, Tasting Him, Tasting Her, and Spanked. Her writing been published in publications such as Clean Sheets,
Cosmopolitan, Fresh Yarn, Huffington Post, Mediabistro,
Newsday, New York Post, Penthouse, San Francisco Chronicle, Tango, and
Time Out New York, and in over 100 anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004 and
2006. She has hosted In The Flesh since October 2005.
www.rachelkramerbussel.comPaula Bomer is a writer from South Bend, Indiana who now lives in New York. Her fiction has appeared in
Best American Erotica 2002 and
2003, Nerve,
Open City, Fiction, The Mississippi Review, The First City Review, The New York Tyrant, juked, Storyglossia, Word Riot and elsewhere.
www.paulabomer.comErnie Conrick is the penname of Richard Connerney, a religions and philosophy scholar who recently returned from India as a Phillips Talbot Fellow studying the influence and impact of religion on Indian life and society. He is the former senior editor of
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and the author of
Safe in Heaven Dead. One of his previous erotic short stories, “The Queen of Exit 17,” was published in
The Best American Erotica, and had the distinction of being Hunter S. Thompson’s favorite story from the series.
Martha Garvey’s fiction has been published in
The Best American Erotica, Exhibitions, Glamour Girls, Strange Pleasures 3, Salon,
Clean Sheets, Bust, and November 3rd. Her essays have appeared in
The New York Times and
Killing the Buddha. She is also the author of two pet health books,
My Fat Dog and
My Fat Cat.Maxim Jakubowski is a writer and ex-publisher who lives in London. He edits and pens erotica, being responsible for
The Mammoth Book of Erotica series and several novels and short story collections including recently
American Casanova, Fools for Lust and
Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer, and the
Rome Noir anthology being published in the USA this week. In civilian life, he is better known for his crime and mystery books and runs London's annual TCM Crime Scene festival, as well as being a regular contributor to
The Guardian newspaper. He has been known to frequent hotel rooms and has no website. Read into that what you will.
Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of General Slocum's Gold and Walk in Shadows, and the editor of
Jack Haringa Must Die!, a fundraising anthology benefiting the Shirley Jackson Awards. His short fiction has appeared in
Cemetary Dance, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 3, City Slab, The Best American Erotica 2007, Playboy, X: The Erotic Treasury, and elsewhere. Nick lives in Brooklyn.
www.nicholaskaufmann.comTsaurah Litzky writes erotic fiction because she has a perpetual case of steamy stockings. She hopes her stories will steam your stockings, too. Tsaurah's erotica has appeared in over sixty-five publications including Best American Erotica eight times. Simon & Schuster published The Motion of the Ocean, Tsaurah's erotic novella as part of Three the Hard Way, a series of erotic novellas edited by Susie Bright. Her prize-winning course "Silk Sheets: Writing Erotica" is now in its eleventh year at the New School in Manhattan. She has recently completed a collection of short stories, End Of The World Sex.
www.tsaurahlitzky.comMarcelle Manhattan launched the popular blog "Sexegesis" in 2007, combining sexuality with gender politics. She first appeared at In the Flesh as a spectator, and later as a reader with "Shaved," something of
a hit on YouTube. Marcelle is currently on blogging hiatus while working on a novel version of her blog, and can also be seen bi-monthly at Bar On A with the comedy writers' troupe "Inner Monologues." She holds an M.A. in Literature but dropped out of her Ph.D. to write smut, among other things, in New York City.
sexegesis.blogspot.comLisa Montanarelli's erotic fiction has appeared in
Best American Erotica 2004, Best American Erotica 2005 and
Whipped, among others. She has co-authored three nonfiction books, including
The First Year – Hepatitis C: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed, which she revised and updated in 2007. She also holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from U.C. Berkeley.
www.LisaNY.comFinding herself uninspired to write her doctoral dissertation,
Chelsea Summers began writing her award-winning blog (
prettydumbthings.typepad.com) in March 2005. Since then, her work has appeared in
GQ, Penthouse, and
Singular magazines in the United States and in
Scarlet, a couple magazines in the UK, on a bunch of big websites, and in several erotic anthologies. Currently, Chelsea is working on a novel and a host of other projects. Chelsea lives and writes in glamorous New York City. She has gleefully abandoned the world of academia for the writing life.
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