Here are lineups for next week's
In The Flesh and the three months thereafter. Come for the smut, stay for the cupcakes! (or vice versa)
IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 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.comFebruary means love, lust . . . and dirty words! Join
Andrew Boyd (Billionaires for Bush,
Life’s Little Deconstruction Book),
Reen Guierre (
Best Women’s Erotica 2007 contributor),
D.L. King (The Dominant’s View), and
Dahlia Schweitzer (
Seduce Me), along with host and curator
Rachel Kramer Bussel, who will be celebrating the publication of her kinky new erotica anthologies
He’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Male Dominance and Female Submission and
She’s on Top: Erotic Stories of Female Dominance and Male Submission. Free candy and mini cupcakes will be served and erotic books will be given away as door prizes.
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 Andy Horwitz, Lily Burana, Jessica Cutler, Polly Frost, Maxim Jakubowski, Emily Scarlet Kramer of CAKE, Edith Layton, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, and many others. The series has gotten press attention from
Escape (Hong Kong),
The L Magazine, New York Magazine,
Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette. This is not Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending Reading Series.
Andrew Boyd is the co-founder of the satirical political campaign Billionaires for Bush and author of several ironically serious (or is it seriously ironic?) books:
Daily Afflictions⎯The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe and
Life's Little Deconstruction Book⎯Self-Help for the Post-Hip, both from W.W.Norton. He's at work on two others, from which he will read tonight.
andrewboyd.comRachel 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 80 anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004 and
2006, and she’s edited 13 erotica anthologies, including
Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and
Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. Her latest kinky anthologies,
He’s on Top and
She’s on Top, will be published in February 2007 by Cleis Press. Rachel has also written for
AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, Time Out New York and
Velvetpark. www.rachelkramerbussel.comReen Guierre (pronounced Gee, hard G + air, accent on air) is a typical MILF (look it up) whose story, “To Serge (soft g) With Love,” made it into
Best Women’s Erotica 2007. If you want to preview the story, check out Amazon’s Look Inside feature⎯if it hasn’t been censored by the time you read this. Another couple of her stories can be found on the internet in their entirety. The weirdest thing about writing are these bios, which are traditionally in third person, so I’ll just say, “I’m looking forward to being in New York again where the people are so nice, they won’t hesitate to yell at you if they think it will help.”
D. L. King lives somewhere between The Big Wheel at Coney Island and The Chrysler Building and has a passion for roasted chestnuts sold on the street, as long as they aren’t burnt. When they are, she’d like to roast some nuts herself. Her first novel, The Melinoe Project, has just been accepted for publication. Find stories by D. L. King in print from Justus Roux, in e-book by Logical Lust and on line at The Dominant's View and Inky Blue Allusions.
www.dlkingerotica.comDahlia Schweitzer spent most of her life in New York and Tel Aviv, where she lived, loved, and worked as a writer, artist, and photographer. But it was in Berlin where she found fame, transforming herself into a singing, dancing, stripteasing queen of electrocabaret. Now Dahlia lives in Los Angeles, just in time to celebrate the publication of her first American publication,
Seduce Me. These erotic short stories recount illicit affairs, intimate secrets, forbidden passions, and obsessive hungers⎯and the sad, funny, startling, revelatory places our sexual desires can take us.
www.thisisdahlia.comIN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 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 month, join
Cheri Crystal (
Erotic Interludes 3, 4, 5),
Joel A. Nichols (
Dorm Porn 2, Travelrotica 2),
Carol Novack (Mad Hatters’ Review), memoirist
Suzanne Portnoy (
The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker), who’s making an appearance all the way from London, and
Claire Thompson (
Golden Boy, Slave Castle), along with host erotica writer and editor
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
He’s on Top, She’s on Top, Caught Looking) for hot stories from across the sexual spectrum. Free candy and mini 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, 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),
The L Magazine, New York magazine,
Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette and has been recommended 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 80 anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004 and
2006, and she’s edited 13 erotica anthologies, most recently
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, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, Time Out New York and
Velvetpark. www.rachelkramerbussel.comCheri Crystal enjoys reading, writing, reviewing, eating, working out, and having sex—not necessarily in that order. Since appearing in
Erotic Interludes 3: Lessons in Love, Cheri has erotica in other Bold Strokes Books, Cleis Press, and Alyson anthologies. When she’s not busy raising a family or working in health care, Cheri is putting the finishing touches on her first novel,
A Closet in Syosset. Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in various online and print journals as well as several anthologies. Though new to the erotic genre, Mintz has had work published in the online journal Clean Sheets as well as
Down & Dirty 2 and
Velvet Heat from Pretty Things Press. A very short work received an honorable mention in a contest at Katy Terrega's Sex-writers.com.
Joel A. Nichols was born and raised in Vermont. This year stories of his will appear in
Dorm Porn 2, Travelrotica 2, Second Skin, Fast Balls, Distant Horizons: Queer Science Fiction (Haworth Positronic),
C is for Co-ed (Cleis),
Got A Minute (Cleis), and
Sex by the Book: Gay Men's Tales of Lit and Lust (Green Candy Press), and have appeared in Alyson's
Full Body Contact, Just the Sex, Ultimate Undies, and
Sexiest Soles. An excerpt from his novel in progress won second place in the Brown Foundation Short Fiction Prize 2005. In 2002, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Berlin. Joel studied German at Wesleyan University and has a Creative Writing M.A. from Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia with his boyfriend and works for an internet porn company.
www.joelanichols.comCarol Novack's writings can & will be found in many publications, including
The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, American Letters & Commentary, Del Sol Review, Diagram, First Intensity, 5_Trope, La Petite Zine, LIT, &
Notre Dame Review. She publishes the e-journal Mad Hatters' Review.
carolnovack.blogspot.comSuzanne Portnoy has been an entertainment publicist for twelve years. Divorced and with two children, aged 13 and 15, she is formerly from New York and now lives in London. Attractive and finally a size 8 after twenty years of yo-yo dieting, she is happily single and spends her spare time writing, having sex and acting as a one-woman car pool service. Her first book,
The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoir, is published by Virgin Books.
www.suzanneportnoy.comClaire Thompson has written erotic fiction since 1995. Much of her work focuses on the romance of erotic submission, as well as the darker exploration of BDSM. Her most recent work focuses on the male/male romance and erotic submission. Claire has published numerous novels and short stories, both in print and ebook format. Says a reviewer for eCataRomance, “…Claire Thompson draws a compelling, graphic picture of a loving dominant/submissive relationship. Erotic and confronting, yet tender and intimate.” Visit her website for a listing of all Claire’s novels, upcoming releases, and more information.
www.clairethompson.netLast year's True Sex Confessions night, with Dan Allen, Jessica Cutler, Miriam Datskovsky, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Judy McGuire, Audacia Ray and Felicia Sullivan drew the first really huge crowd for In The Flesh. We're back with more racy confessions from another equally talent group of writers, along with some much-anticipated audience participation!
IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
TRUE SEX CONFESSIONS NIGHT
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 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.comThe second annual
True Sex Confessions night features an all-star roster of artists, bloggers, and writers, including
Chelseagirl (Pretty Dumb Things blog),
Valerie Frankel (
The Accidental Virgin, Hex and the Single Girl),
Dan Goldman (“Kelly,”
Shooting War),
Peter Hyman (
The Reluctant Metrosexual, “Group Therapy” show),
Logan Levkoff (
Third Base Ain’t What It Used To Be), and
Courtney McLean (“Normal-C, “Super Glossy!”). Hosted by erotica writer and editor
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
He’s on Top, She’s on Top, Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and
2). Audience members will have the chance to share their anonymous true confessions throughout the night. Free candy and mini 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, 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),
The L Magazine, New York Magazine,
Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette. 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 80 anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004 and
2006, and she’s edited 13 erotica anthologies, including
Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and
Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. Her latest kinky anthologies,
He’s on Top and
She’s on Top, will be published in February 2007 by Cleis Press. Rachel has also written for
AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, Time Out New York and
Velvetpark. www.rachelkramerbussel.comChelsea Girl began her blog, Pretty Dumb things, in March of 2005. Her writing has been featured in the UK magazines
Scarlet and
Modern Woman and on Audible.co.uk. While Chelsea Girl maintains that she is a writer of a blog with sex, not of it, the world seems to disagree. She, rather predictably, lives in Chelsea, where she is working on several long and overwhelming writing projects.
Prettydumbthings.typepad.comValerie Frankel has written thirteen novels, including
The Accidental Virgin, The Girlfriend Curse, Hex and the Single Girl, and, for teens, the
Fringe Girl series. She also writes a lot about sex and dieting (sometimes at the same time) for magazines such as
Self, Glamour and
Allure. She's lived in Brooklyn for nearly twenty years, has two daughters, three cats and one husband, the opera singer Stephen Quint.
www.valeriefrankel.comDan Goldman is a writer, illustrator and designer of mostly comics. The artist behind
Shooting War, the upcoming graphic novel from Warner Books, Dan is also a founding member of the daily comics anthology ACT-I-VATE, where he writes and draws the damaged romance Craigslist thriller "KELLY", recently featured on Nerve.com. While known primarily for his work in the comics medium, writing prose is his first love. He lives in New York City.
www.dangoldman.netPeter Hyman is an author and journalist who happens to do some comedic performing on occasion. He is a contributing writer for Radar magazine and his work has appeared in
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Details, New York Magazine and Slate.com, among others. He is the author of
The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches From An Almost Hip Life and is at work on a satiric novel about post-war Iraq.
www.pdhyman.comHoping to become the voice of the next generation of sexually healthy young women,
Logan Levkoff began her career in sexology as a peer AIDS educator in high school and she hasn't stopped since…Today, Logan is the host of "The Lowdown", a love and sex show on IVillage.com. She frequently appears on television, including Oprah, VH1, Fox News Channel, and The Today Show. She has also served as the sexual advice columnist for many magazines and websites. Logan is the spokesperson for Elexa, a line of sexual health and intimacy products for women, by Trojan, and is the author of
The Espresso Dating Guide, a project created by Starbucks and Yahoo!Personals. Her first book,
Third Base Ain't What it Used to Be, will be published by NAL in October 2007.
www.loganlevkoff.comCourtney McLean's solo performance work 'accomplishes the highest moral function of theater: to promote understanding' as well as totally nerding out on stage. Courtney's first show, "Normal-C" debuted in San Diego to sold-out houses in 2002 (after the discovery that auditioning for other people's stupid plays sucks) and was toured to Washington, DC and Minneapolis, MN last summer after a stint at the Triad in NYC. The new show, "Super Glossy!" a sci-fi satire on women's magazines, just debuted at the NYC Frigid Fest and is preparing for flight across the nation this summer. Courtney lives in East Harlem with her cat and her vibrator.
www.courtneymclean.comLianne Stokes has a really hard time with numbers. She was always awful at math. Which means that she's constantly overdrawn in her "WAMU" checking account. A budding quirky creative type, she’s been doing stand-up on the New York indie scene for five years. Known for her high-energy style, she appreciates that "Dudes think she's funny." Most recently Lianne's had the pleasure to write and workshop her solo show, "Stokes" around town. Oh! She's also got a blog. Yes! And, she's super proud that said blog is often linked by Gawker.
Liannestokes.blogspot.comIN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH 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.comA diverse mix of authors and styles take erotica to a whole new level, from fiction to romance to letter-writing, mystery, and confessions. Featuring
Sarah Iverson (
Iris, Messenger),
Jackie Kessler (
Hell’s Belles),
Samara O’Shea (
For the Love of Letters, letterlover.net),
Jerry Rodriguez (
The Devil’s Mambo) and
Dana Vachon (
Mergers and Acquisitions), along with host and curator
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
She’s on Top, He’s on Top, Caught Looking). Free candy and mini cupcakes will be served. Authors’ books will be available for sale.
Bios coming soon!
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