Synopses & Reviews
Lust brings out the liar in everyone. Every erection has Pinocchio written up and down its lengthyes, everybody wants to be REAL, a real boy, an honest woman, unafraid and uprightbut then desire, the ultimate honesty, does us in. Desire doesn't give a whit about shame. Our secrets, our exaggerations and distractions, it's all just a lot of twisting in the wind as far as sex is concernedwhat we want WILL come out.
"Is our sexuality a basic, good, and precious thing that somehow became terribly misunderstood? Or is there something really evil out there in Sex Land that attaches itself to our libidos and is only held back by vigilance and caution?" asks Susie Bright in her bestselling book The Sexual State of the Union. Bright pushes the borders of propriety until they blur and become irrelevant in the face of our inherent need to touch and be touched. With candor and passion, Susie Bright proves that sexual knowledge can indeed be salvation and inspiration.
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The New York Times Book Review Ms. Bright is the voice of sweet reason and literacy.
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Armistead Maupin Susie Bright is a true American original. She cuts through the crap of modern Calvinism with disarming candor and humor and yes, elegance. We're so lucky to have her.
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Erica Jong Susie Bright is the genuine article...She proves the point that the muse screws, that all creativity is inevitably sexual, and that the juciest people write the most delectable books.
Synopsis
Hailed by the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog as a national treasure right up there with the Grand Canyon, the battlefield at Gettysburg...and the Smithsonian's Nancy Reagan Memorial Dress Collection, Susie Bright once again culls the best erotic writing from magazines, journals, and short story collections published during the last year. The result is an anthology of high literary quality that covers the totality of human sexuality. Among the thirty-one pieces that will amuse, shock, and captivate are: Shay Youngblood's Triple X, Serena Moloch's The Casting Couch, Debra Boxer's Innocence in Extremis, and an excerpt from Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama.
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.