From Publishers Weekly
For the third year in a row, Bright, a well-known lecturer and writer on human sexuality, brings us a brand-new, skin-tingling potpourri of stories you won't hear told at the dinner table. These kinky tales are not for the easily offended, and there are quite a number of unusual couplings: Jay Michaelson's feverish relationship between a girl and a boy-turned-wolf in "The Spirit That Denies" and Renee M. Charles's portrait of a female vampire on the job at a 24-hour underground barber shop in "Cinnamon Roses." Other stories range from James Williams's amusing "Daddy," in which a wife plays at being a baby for her husband; to Mary Malmrose's thought-provoking "For Love or Money," which depicts a world where slavery is one way to pay off debt; to the chilling "Absolution" by Tom Caffrey, about a Nazi who pays penance in the most personal, humiliating way he can. The contributors will be new to most people, with the exceptions of the well-known Robert Olen Butler and Nicholson Baker-the latter represented by an excerpt from The Fermata. This anthology, even more than the last, explores a myriad of sexual possibilities sharing very little except a disdain for conventional and a concern for safe sex. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Charlotte Hays Harper's Bazaar The something-for-everyone page-turner.
Book Description
The Best American Erotica 1995 is the ideal collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature. Edited by Susie Bright, whom the Utne Reader calls "one of the leading thinkers and visionaries of our time," this third annual edition of a best-selling series brings together the most outstanding erotic writing of the year. Contributors: Susan St. Aubin Jay Michaelson Nicholson Baker Susan Musgrave Robert Olen Butler Anna Nymus Tom Caffrey Lisa Palac Renee Charles Paul Reed Corwin Erickson Annie Regrets Scarlett Fever Raye Sharpe Tsaurah Litzky Le Shaun Al Lujan Trac Vu Mary Malmros Anne Wallace James Williams
About the Author
Susie Bright is a writer, editor, and performer hailed by the Boston Phoenix as the "goddess of erotica." In addition to editing Herotica I, II and III, the women's erotic fiction series, she is the author of Sex Wise, Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader, and Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World. The Last Whole Earth Catalog Millennium volume calls her a "national treasure, right up there with the Grand Canyon, the Okefenokee Swamp, and the Smithsonian's Nancy Reagan Memorial Dress Collection."
The Best American Erotica, 1995 ANNOTATION
Cutting across all sexual preferences, this collection features works by well-known writers such as Nicholson Baker and Robert Olen Butler, as well as by new voices. Culled from magazines, journals, novels, and short story collections, the stories explore the nature of sexuality and the sexual experience.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Best American Erotica 1995 is the ideal collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature. Edited by Susie Bright, whom the Utne Reader calls "one of the leading thinkers and visionaries of our time," this third annual edition of a best-selling series brings together the most outstanding erotic writing of the year.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
For the third year in a row, Bright, a well-known lecturer and writer on human sexuality, brings us a brand-new, skin-tingling potpourri of stories you won't hear told at the dinner table. These kinky tales are not for the easily offended, and there are quite a number of unusual couplings: Jay Michaelson's feverish relationship between a girl and a boy-turned-wolf in ``The Spirit That Denies'' and Renee M. Charles's portrait of a female vampire on the job at a 24-hour underground barber shop in ``Cinnamon Roses.'' Other stories range from James Williams's amusing ``Daddy,'' in which a wife plays at being a baby for her husband; to Mary Malmrose's thought-provoking ``For Love or Money,'' which depicts a world where slavery is one way to pay off debt; to the chilling ``Absolution'' by Tom Caffrey, about a Nazi who pays penance in the most personal, humiliating way he can. The contributors will be new to most people, with the exceptions of the well-known Robert Olen Butler and Nicholson Baker-the latter represented by an excerpt from The Fermata. This anthology, even more than the last, explores a myriad of sexual possibilities sharing very little except a disdain for conventional and a concern for safe sex. (Oct.)
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