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Star-studded and with something for every sexual taste and curiosity Famous for taking her readers to undiscovered places, Susie Bright has changed the rules for writing about sex. Erotica is no longer under-the-covers reading; it's thrilling literature that showcases the best writing around. In Best American Erotica 2006, Bright chooses stories that toy with desire in excerpts from some of the most sexually charged and fearless writing of the year. John Updike's story recalls his narrator's first love and how they began to have sex. David Sedaris takes us into his strip poker card room. Tom Perrotta portrays a bored married man whose wife busts him as he navigates his Internet swinger life. Helen Walsh's diary shows a college student in England who drifts from a promis-ing academic career into the arms of prostitutes. In Best American Erotica 2006, today's most popular writers add their voices to a collection for any reader - straight, gay, curious - seeking memorable sex and riveting storytelling. Contributors John Updike, David Sedaris, Tom Perrotta, Steve Almond, Lynn Freed, Maxine Chernoff, Carol Queen, Helen Walsh, Stephen Elliott, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Bob Vickery, James Williams, Will Heinrich, Peggy Munson, Sera Gamble, Salome Wilde, Bianca James, Donna George Storey, Mr. Sleep, Gwen Masters, Gaea Yudron, Kweli Walker, L. Elise Bland, and Sidney Durham
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In THE BEST AMERICAN EROTICA 2006, Bright chooses stories that toy with fear as well as desire in excerpts from some of the most sexually charged and fearless writing of the year. John Updike's story recalls his narrator's first love and how they began to have sex for the first time. David Sedaris takes us into his strip poker card room. Tom Perrotta portrays a bored married man whose wife busts him as he navigates his Internet swinger life. With THE BEST AMERICAN EROTICA 2006 today's most popular writers add their voices to a collection for any reader - straight, gay, curious - seeking memorable sex and riveting storytelling.
About the Author
Susie Bright has been the editor of the Best American Erotica series since 1993 and is known as the founder of the erotica genre. A columnist for Playboy and Salon, Bright has been profiled in USA Today, the L.A. Times, the San Francisco Review of Books, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Penthouse and Vanity Fair. She also won an Erotic Oscar in 1999 for Best Film for Susie Bright, Sex Pest, a documentary produced and broadcast in the UK.
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- PublisherTouchstone
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0743258525
- ISBN 13 9780743258524
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages258
- EditorBright Susie
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