Synopses & Reviews
For this special millennium edition, Susie Bright, our nation's trustworthy and tantalizing guide into the world of sexual fantasy and freedom, has gathered the best erotic writing of the year to produce a new, sizzling volume. In this collection we find human sexuality in all its diversity; pleasure and desire in all its forms. This doublelength, year 2000 edition offers a glimpse of what sex in the new millennium might be, a time when voices from the sexual underground will be heard and our ideas of perfection will be redefined. This most recent installment in the annual bestselling series includes the year's most provocative literature, guaranteed to have something for everyone.
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Edward Rothstein The New York Times Susie Bright has become the avatar of American erotica.
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Suzanne Kammlott The Boston Phoenix The Fantastic? The Orgasmic? Whatever you're looking to satisfy, there's a story here for you. Susie Bright's impeccable credentials in the field of sexual social studies and literature make The Best American Erotica a learned and lusty read.
About the Author
Susie Bright is the editor of The Best American Erotica series and host of the weekly audio show In Bed with Susie Bright on Audible.com. She has been a columnist for Playboy and Salon, and has been profiled in USA TODAY, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. An international lecturer on sexuality and feminism, she won the 2004 Writer of the Year Award at the Erotic Awards in London. Ms. Bright lives in Santa Cruz, California.Susie Bright is the editor of The Best American Erotica series and host of the weekly audio show In Bed with Susie Bright on Audible.com. She has been a columnist for Playboy and Salon, and has been profiled in USA TODAY, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. An international lecturer on sexuality and feminism, she won the 2004 Writer of the Year Award at the Erotic Awards in London. Ms. Bright lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Table of Contents
ContentsIntroduction
Innocence in Extremis
Debra Boxer
Space Girls Are Easy, from Rock 'n' Roll Babes from Outer Space
Linda Jaivin
The Maltese Dildo
Adam McCabe
Triple X
Shay Youngblood
Sophie's Smoke
Mark Stuertz
Calcutta
Bob Vickery
S & M
Gabrielle Glancy
Somewhere I Have Never Traveled
Claire Tristram
3 Shades of Longing
Jack Murnighan
From Glamorama
Bret Easton Ellis
ReBecca
Vicki Hendricks
Fish Curry Rice
Ginu Kamani
Midsummer of Love
Simon Sheppard
The Manicure
Nell Carberry
Essence of Rose
Poppy Z. Brite
It Will Do for Now
Molly Weatherfield
Two Cars in a Cornfield
William Harrison
Maryann
Marc Levy
The Queen of Exit 17
Ernie Conrick
Ten Seconds to Love
Michelle Tea
Ideal Assex
Eva Morris
From The Leather Daddy and the Femme
Carol Queen
Thief of Cocks
Susannah Indigo
The Agent
Jess Wells
Big Hungry Woman
Bill Noble
The Fishing Show
Mel Harris
The Blowfish
Amelia G
Casting Couch
Serena Moloch
Scent
Susan St. Aubin
Quiet Please
Aimee Bender
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