And I think September will be a "Best Of" where I'll ask some people back, but to perform different material. And maybe another True Sex Confessions night in November but I need to figure that out later.
IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
2ND ANNUAL GLBT EROTICA NIGHT
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH at 8 PM
AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey, http://www.happyendinglounge.com)
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.comThis Gay Pride month, come celebrate queerness in all its rainbow of colors with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender erotica from the country’s finest queer authors at In The Flesh! Featuring
Radclyffe (
Erotic Interludes, Bold Strokes Books),
Jolie du Pre (
Iridescence),
JD Glass (
Punk Like Me),
Michael Luongo (
The Voyeur, Between the Palms),
Jay Lygon (
Hot Cops), with a five-minute video of
Peggy Munson reading from her novel
Origami Striptease. Hosted by
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
Up All Night, Glamour Girls, First-Timers). Free cupcakes and candy will be served.
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, Andy Mo Beasley, Lily Burana, Jessica Cutler, Stephen Elliott, Polly Frost, Gael Greene, Andy Horwitz, Debra Hyde, Maxim Jakubowski, Emily Scarlet Kramer of CAKE, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Edith Layton, Sofia Quintero, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Grant Stoddard, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, Susan Wright, and many others. The series has gotten press attention from
Escape (Hong Kong), Flavorpill,
The L Magazine, New York Magazine,
Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette, and has been praised by Dr. Ruth. This is not Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending Reading Series.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com, and wrote the popular Lusty Lady column for
The Village Voice. Her erotic stories have been published in over 100 anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004 and
2006, and she’s edited several erotica anthologies, most recently
He’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Male dominance and Female Submission, She’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Female Dominance and Male Submission, Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and
Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. Rachel has also written for
AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK, Gothamist, Huffington Post, Mediabistro,
Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York and
Velvetpark. www.rachelkramerbussel.comJolie du Pre is a writer of lesbian erotica and lesbian erotic romance. Her stories have appeared on numerous websites, in e-book and in print in Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 and more. Jolie is the editor of
Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica, published by Alyson Books. She is also the founder of GLBT Promo (
www.glbtpromo.com) a promotional group for GLBT erotica and erotic romance.
www.joliedupre.comJD Glass, lead singer of “Life Underwater” and inveterate doodler of eye-candy, is the author of Lambda Literary Award finalist
Punk Like Me, its follow up
Punk And Zen, and has had short stories published in Erotic Interludes 4 and 5 (all published by Bold Strokes Books). She lives in the city of her choice and birth, New York, with her beloved partner. While waiting for the June 2007 release of
Red Light, JD’s currently writing her next novel,
American Goth, and penning reviews for Prism Comics (titles will include L&R, the final story-arc for
SiP, Small Favors, Jane’s World, and
Max & Lilly. Oh, and a little
X-Men because, hey, why not).
Michael Luongo is a New York based freelance writer, editor and photographer. His work has appeared in the
New York Times, The Advocate, The Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg News, Gay City News and many other publications. He is Senior Editor for Haworth’s Out in the World gay travel collection, putting out books like the erotic collection
Between the Palms and
Gay Travels in the Muslim World. He writes the Frommer’s Buenos Aires, and travels primarily in Latin America and the Middle East, preferring unusual destinations where being gay is challenging such as Afghanistan. Alyson Books recently published his first novel,
The Voyeur, about a gay sex researcher working in New York in the time of Giuliani, loosely based on his own experiences.
www.michaelluongo.comJay Lygon’s stories can be found in
Hot Cops, Inside Him, and on Clean Sheets and the Erotica Readers and Writer’s Association websites. Her novel,
Chaos Magic, was recently published by Torquere Press.
Peggy Munson wrote the Project Queerlit-winning novel,
Origami Striptease, and edited the acclaimed anthology,
Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She has published poetry in venues such as the
Best American Poetry 2003, Literature and Medicine, Marginalia, the Spoon River Poetry Review, Sinister Wisdom, and
13th Moon. She is the most-published writer in the
Best Lesbian Erotica series and her literary erotica has also been chosen for two editions of
Best American Erotica. www.peggymunson.comRadclyffe is the author or editor of over twenty-five lesbian novels and anthologies, including the 2005 Lambda Literary Award winners
Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments and
Distant Shores, Silent Thunder. She has selections in
Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 and
2007, Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, First-Timers, Ultimate Undies: Erotic Stories About Lingerie and Underwear, and
Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. She is also the president of Bold Strokes Books, an independent LGBT publishing company.
www.radfic.comIN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18TH at 8 PM
AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey, http://www.happyendinglounge.com)
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.comJuly heats up with a mix of today’s hottest erotic writers delivering sexual demons, erotic fairy tales, and other naughtiness. With
Louisa Burton (
House of Dark Delights),
Myriam Gurba (
Dahlia Season),
Aimee Herman (
If These Thighs Could Talk),
Lillian Ann Slugocki (
The Erotica Project),
Maddy Stuart (
Sexiest Soles) and host and curator
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
He’s on Top, She’s on Top). Free candy and cupcakes will be served.
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 PortnoySofia Quintero, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Grant Stoddard, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, Dana Vachon, Veronica Vera, Susan Wright, and many others. The series has gotten press attention from
Escape (Hong Kong), Flavorpill,
The L Magazine, New York magazine,
Philadelphia City Paper, Time Out New York, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette, and has been praised by Dr. Ruth. This is not Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending Reading Series.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at
Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com, and wrote the popular Lusty Lady column for
The Village Voice. Her erotic stories have been published in over 100 anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004 and
2006, and she’s edited numerous erotica anthologies, most recently
He’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Male dominance and Female Submission, She’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Female Dominance and Male Submission, Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and
Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. Rachel has also written for
AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK, Gothamist, Mediabistro, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York and
Velvetpark.www.rachelkramerbussel.comLouisa Burton is a novelist and the author of the Hidden Grotto series of epic erotic fantasy, in which the beings mythologists call “sexual demons”—incubi, succubi, satyrs, and the like—have lived among us for thousands of years.. The series grew out of Louisa’s fascination with Victorian erotica, history, and mythology.
House of Dark Delights, which was released in February 2007, is also being published in Germany. The second book in the series,
Bound in Moonlight, comes out in December, and Louisa is currently writing the third,
Whispers of the Flesh. www.louisaburton.comMyriam Gurba is a high school teacher who lives in Long Beach, California, home of Snoop Dogg and the Queen Mary. Her first novel,
Dahlia Season, was published recently by Manic D/Future Tense Books. She graduated from UC Berkeley, and her writing has appeared in anthologies like
Best American Erotica (St. Martin's Press),
Bottom's Up (Soft Skull Press),
Secrets and Confidences (Seal Press), and
Tough Girls (Black Books).
www.dahliaseason.comAimee Herman has been described as Woody Allen with a vagina. No subject is too risque for her to write. She currently has two chapbooks of poetry out (
tastes like cheesecake, if these thighs could talk) and recorded a spoken word CD available through
cdbaby.com/AimeeHerman. She does not believe in warnings or disclaimers. All words are meant to inspire/offend/induce perspiration nausea/ and indigestion. Comments, questions, and suggestions for new sexual positions may be sent to:
writerslashpoet@aol.com
Lillian Ann Slugocki, an award winning feminist writer, has created a body of work on women and their sexuality which includes fiction, non-fiction, plays and monologues which have been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and on National Public Radio. Her work has been published in books, journals, anthologies, and on-line; including Salon.com. She has been reviewed in
The New York Times, The Village Voice, Art in America, The New Yorker, The Daily News, The New York Post, and recently in London;
Time Out, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and
The London Sunday Times. Maddy Stuart paints and programs computers in a cold Canadian city. Her writing has appeared in
Sexiest Soles: Erotic Stories about Feet and Shoes and
Secret Slaves: Erotic Stories of Bondage, both in the Fetish Chest series.
www.maddystuart.comIN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15th at 8 PM
AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey, http://www.happyendinglounge.com)
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.comFrom Juicy Mangos to sex in the Hamptons and more, August’s In The Flesh takes into the bedroom and beyond with steamy stories from some of New York’s naughtiest (plus a visiting guest from Minneapolis). Featuring
John Blesso (
Sharehouse Confidential),
Perry Brass (
Carnal Sacraments),
Catherine Lundoff (
Crave),
Elisha Miranda (
The Sista Hood), and
Michelle Herrera Mulligan (
Juicy Mangos). Hosted by erotic writer and editor
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
He’s on Top, She’s on Top, Caught Looking). Free candy and cupcakes will be served and authors books will be available for sale.
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, Andy 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, and many others. The series has gotten press attention from
Escape (Hong Kong), Flavorpill,
The L Magazine, New York magazine,
Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette, and has been praised by Dr. Ruth. This is not Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending Reading Series.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com, and wrote the popular Lusty Lady column for The Village Voice. Her erotic stories have been published in over 100 anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and she’s edited numerous erotica anthologies, most recently
He’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Male dominance and Female Submission, She’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Female Dominance and Male Submission, Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and
Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. Rachel has also written for
AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK, Gothamist, Huffington Post, Mediabistro,
Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York and
Velvetpark.www.rachelkramerbussel.comJohn Blesso’s latest book is
Sharehouse Confidential: Sex, Drugs and the Single Life Inside an Epicurean Beach House, his comedic memoir of buying and renovating a seven-bedroom beach house to distract him from post-9/11 America. This behind-the-scenes tell-all takes readers on a wild tour of his epicurean playground where a pool of New York City singles dine extravagantly and commingle beneath his communal roof. In 2006, John Blesso was not awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
www.johnblesso.comPoet/novelist
Perry Brass has published 14 books and been a finalist six times in three categories for Lambda Literary Awards. His work has been included in 25 anthologies, including
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse and The Columbia University Book of Gay Literature. His novel
Warlock: A Novel of Possession, won an "Ippy" Award from Independent Publisher Magazine. His novel,
The Substance of God: A Spiritual Thriller, a Lammy finalist, asked the question: is our often censored urge toward sex the same urge as our urge toward a higher presence, known as God. His newest novel is
Carnal Sacraments: A Historical Novel of the Future, set in 2075, when your lifespan will be determined by your job, privacy will be antiquated, and homosexuality will be permitted but only in its most sanitized and corporatized form. He teaches writing privately.
www.perrybrass.comCatherine Lundoff is the author of two collections of lesbian erotica:
Night’s Kiss (Torquere Press, 2005) and
Crave: Tales of Love, Lust and Longing (Lethe Press, 2007). Her short fiction has appeared in such collections as
Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Lust for Life, Garden of the Perverse, Amazons, Caught Looking, Best Fantastic Erotica Vol. 1, Stirring Up a Storm and
Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z.Under her pen name E-Fierce,
Elisha Miranda wrote her debut novel,
The Sista Hood: On the Mic. She received her MFA in film from Columbia University. Also an activist, film director, entrepreneur, and writer of television and film, she is the co-founder of Chica Luna Productions, a nonprofit arts company for young women of color, to create quality urban media. In 2006, she launched her multi-media production company, Sister Outsider Entertainment with creative partner, Sofia Quintero where they are developing an edgy Latina
Sex and the City sitcom for television.
www.elishamiranda.comMichelle Herrera Mulligan is the editor of
Juicy Mangos: The Best Latina Erotica, the first-ever literary collection of Latina erotica in English. The collection of seven novellas was released by Atria Books this July. In 2004, she co-edited
Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting, an anthology of essays on the contemporary American Latina experience. Michelle is a freelance writer based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and her articles have appeared in
Time, Woman's Day, and
Publisher's Weekly. She is currently working on her first novel.
www.myspace.com/juicymangosbookLabels: In The Flesh Reading Series
Bottoms Up: Spanking Good Stories
Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories
Yes, Sir: Erotic Stories of Male Dominance
Best Sex Writing 2008
