Download or read book The Best American Erotica 2007 written by Susie Bright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erotic Reading That Satisfies Every Sexual Appetite In the fourteenth edition of this seductive series, erotica's veterans and up-and-coming new writers join forces to explore how tantalizing crossing the so-called Lolita gap between youth and middle age can be. Kathryn Harrison explores the story of a psychiatrist whose sexual affairs with a young client have an unexpected consequence; Dennis Cooper trails an extraordinary hustler working his older johns; and Jessica Cutler gives lessons on how a young woman can take down all the politicians in Washington with just the crook of her pretty little finger. Guided by the genius of editor Susie Bright, The Best American Erotica 2007 will bring an exciting new climax to readers discovering that they love erotica -- and to those already hooked.
Download or read book The Best American Erotic Poems written by David Lehman and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2008 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant sensuality. These poems range across the varied landscapes of love and sex and desire -- from the intimate parts of the body to the end of an affair, from passion to solitary self-pleasure. With candor and imagination, they capture the delights and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy. David Lehman, the distinguished editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, has culled a witty, titillating, and alluring collection that starts with Francis Scott Key, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane, encompasses Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Kevin Young, and Sharon Olds, and concludes with the rising stars of a whole new generation of versifiers, including Sarah Manguso, Ravi Shankar, and Brenda Shaughnessy. In a section of the book that is sure to prompt discussion and further reading, the living poets write about their favorite works of erotic writing. This book will delight, surprise, and inspire.
Download or read book American Cool written by Susan DiPlacido and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Cool is HOT!" -Ellen Meister, author of Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA When characters meet every roll of the dice with grit, humor and determination, is it enough to change the stakes? Enter the world of American Cool, where risk, rejection, romance are played to win. In these stories you'll discover . Lana, a tough gangster's daughter who's out to vanquish the ghost of her father's legacy while on a winning streak in Vegas. To separate herself from his violent past, she'll have to sever all ties to her future. Miguel, a minor league ballplayer with a penchant for choking in pressure situations. When he meets the girl of his dreams, will he botch that play too? An aging singleton, Marie, who's tired of being passed over for her pretty friends. But succumbing to the lure of plastic surgery may scar her psyche.
Download or read book Kink written by R.O. Kwon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. A Most-Anticipated book of 2021 as selected by * Marie Claire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Cosmopolitan * Time * The Millions * The Advocate * Autostraddle * Refinery29 * Shape * Town & Country * Book Riot * Literary Hub * Kink is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark, Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham, and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors. The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates, therapists’ offices, underground sex clubs, and even a sex theater in early-20th century Paris. While there are whips and chains, sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires, as portrayed by some of today’s most exciting writers.
Download or read book The Best American Essays 2007 written by Robert Atwan and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals.
Download or read book Still Life Nine Stories written by Nicholas Kaufmann and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still Life: Nine Stories contains seven previously published stories and two brand-new, never-before-seen originals, by Bram Stoker Award-, Thriller Award-, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Nicholas Kaufmann. Also included is an introduction from multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated author James A. Moore. Stories included in this collection: Comeback (F)Earless Go Mysteries of the Cure Street Cred The Beat of Her Wings The Jew of Prague Toad Lily Under the Skin
Download or read book Jack Haringa Must Die written by Nicholas Kaufmann and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Haringa. The very name strikes fear in the hearts of the grammatically challenged. But fear not semicolon abusers and malapropists! The tables are turned in Jack Haringa Must Die!, which collects the very best Haringa death scenes and tales from... Jack Ketchum Christopher Golden Brian Keene Craig Shaw Gardner James A. Moore Laird Barron Nick Mamatas Mary SanGiovanni Lee Thomas Bev Vincent and many more. With an introduction by Paul G. Tremblay and an afterword by Jack Haringa himself, this fundraising anthology will thrill you, scare you, tickle your funny bone and have you resounding the battle cry, Jack Haringa Must Die!
Download or read book Queer and Catholic written by Amie Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one reconcile the tension between the community of one’s own Catholic upbringing and a sexuality and gender identity that may be in conflict with some of the tenets of the faith – especially when one is a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex community? Queer and Catholic offers a source of comfort to members of these communities, focusing on not only practicing Catholics, but also the entire experience of growing up Catholic. This unique book discusses Catholicism beyond its religiosity and considers its implications as a culture of origin. This widely varied and entertaining book pulls together a comprehensive collection of essays, stories, and poetry that together represent an honest and engaging reflection of being a queer person within the Catholic experience.
Download or read book The Adderall Diaries written by Stephen Elliott and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against him, he proclaims his innocence. The case takes a twist when Nina's former lover, and Hans's former best friend, Sean Sturgeon, confesses to eight unrelated murders that no one has ever heard of.At the time of Sturgeon's confession, Stephen Elliot is paralyzed by writer's block, in the thrall of Adderall dependency, and despondent over the state of his romantic life. But he is fascinated by Sturgeon, whose path he has often crossed in San Francisco's underground S&M scene. What kind of person, he wonders, confesses to a murder he likely did not commit? One answer is, perhaps, a man like Elliott's own father.So begins a riveting journey through a neon landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom and the dawn of Paris Hilton's celebrity, The Adderall Diaries is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self. Tough, tender, and unflinchingly honest, it is the breakout book by one of the most daring writers of his generation.
Download or read book Chasing the Dragon written by Nicholas Kaufmann and published by ChiZine. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Chock-full of blood-splattered fun, lightning-fast action and arguably the coolest dragon I’ve seen in a horror story . . . Well worth your time.” —The Horror Fiction Review Centuries ago, Saint George fought and killed a dragon—or so the legend goes. The truth is somewhat different. George failed in his mission, and the Dragon still walks the Earth, protected by an undead army, hiding in the shadows and slaughtering men, women, and children for its prey. Each of George’s descendants through time has been tasked with killing the Dragon, and each has failed. Twenty-five-year-old Georgia Quincey is the last of the line—the last, best hope for defeating the Dragon once and for all. But Georgia is also an addict, driven to the warm embrace of the needle by the weight of her responsibility and the loss of everything and everyone she has ever loved. Tracking her nemesis to the small town of Buckshot, New Mexico, for their final showdown, Georgia is about to discover the truth about the Dragon, a terrible secret that could put all life on Earth in peril. An International Thriller Writers Award and a Shirley Jackson Award Nominee “An ancient monster, reanimated corpses, psychic visions, family legacies, blood and mayhem: Kaufmann gleefully piles horror trope on horror trope as his narrative tracks its protagonist’s desperate pursuit of a killer.” —John Langan, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Fisherman “A gripping, fast-paced, and surprising novella.” —Paul Tremblay, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World “Kaufmann shares Stephen King’s ability to show the real, harsh, and ugly truths about humanity while weaving a believable fantasy around them.” —SFRevu.com
Download or read book Black Silk written by Retha Powers and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of African-American fiction, "Black Silk" is filled with lush, sexy stories featuring heroines who are overwhelmingly in control of their sexual lives and unabashed about their appetites.
Download or read book Visible written by Jennifer Clare Burke and published by Homofactus Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity, calls the LGBTQI community on its prejudices and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity and body type intersect with each contributor's concrete notion of femmedom.
Download or read book Books and Beyond 4 volumes written by Kenneth Womack and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 1333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a strong interest in reading for pleasure or self-improvement in America, as shown by the popularity of Harry Potter, and book clubs, including Oprah Winfrey's. Although recent government reports show a decline in recreational reading, the same reports show a strong correlation between interest in reading and academic acheivement. This set provides a snapshot of the current state of popular American literature, including various types and genres. The volume presents alphabetically arranged entries on more than 70 diverse literary categories, such as cyberpunk, fantasy literature, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, graphic novels, manga and anime, and zines. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a definition of the genre, an overview of its history, a look at trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, a review of the genre's reception, a discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for further reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Reading in America for pleasure and knowledge continues to be popular, even while other media compete for attention. While students continue to read many of the standard classics, new genres have emerged. These have captured the attention of general readers and are also playing a critical role in the language arts classroom. This book maps the state of popular literature and reading in America today, including the growth of new genres, such as cyberpunk, zines, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, and other topics. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a definition of the genre, an overview of its history, a look at trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, a review of the genre's critical reception, a discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for further reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students will find this book a valuable guide to what they're reading today and will appreciate its illumination of popular culture and contemporary social issues.
Download or read book A Perfect Scar and Other Stories written by Trebor Healey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Perfect Scar and Other Stories is a whimsical, sly, and slightly crazy collection of short stories from award-winning novelist, poet, and songwriter Trebor Healey. These 12 tales cover a lot of ground, including AIDS, aging, death, eroticism, tattoos, and multiculturalism--all told with humor, insight, and Healey's rich, lyrical touch.
Download or read book Drivel written by Julia Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude. Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk, Amy Tan, A.J. Jacobs, Daniel Clowes, Jeff Greenwald, Po Bronson…the list goes on. They all sucked once, and they all have the guts to share some of their crappiest early work in Drivel: an uplifting bit of voyeurism, based on the sold-out “Regreturature” stage shows in San Francisco, and brought to you by Litquake and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Within these pages you’ll find abstruse and esoteric poetry (bad); incoherent and illogical short stories (worse); bumfuzzling proto-journalism (shameful); and pretentious, overwrought journal entries (we’ll not speak of this again). Thanks to these courageous but foolhardy writers, the world now knows the real meaning of a work-in-progress.
Download or read book Naughty Or Nice written by Alison Tyler and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Replete with visions of sugar-plums, big juicy candy canes and stockings eager to be filled, Naughty or Nice? is an irresistable collection of holiday erotica from editor Alison Tyler, hot enough to make anyone wish that the season of giving lasted all year long. Good Little Girl stars a narrator who might pretend to be nice, but when she appears in front of her lover dressed as Santa, the naughty truth comes out. In Carol's Christmas, a retelling of Dickens' famous story, Carol may not learn the ghosts' lesson, but she still gets just what she wants for Christmas...
Download or read book Happy Baby written by Stephen Elliott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Baby is the story of Theo, once an orphan in the Chicago foster care system and now a grown man living in California. Theo, saturated with memories of abuse and heartache, and filled with the simple wish to understand more about himself, returns to Chicago to reconnect with an old girlfriend from his troubled youth. Told in reverse order, this edgy and powerful novel slowly and subtly turns mysterious, as we attempt to recognize the root of Theo's plight and the source for his quietly wavering humanity.
