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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Appropriately enough: Single State of the Union is out

The fabulous Diane Mapes has edited a brand-new anthology called Single State of the Union that I'm honored to have an essay in. Apparently, it's just hit bookstores. My essay is called (and yes, now utterly out of date, so consider it a snapshot of a certain moment in time last year) "A Work in Progress: Inside the Mind (and Bed) of a Single Sex Columnist."

Here's a little peek:

Car sex, foot fetishists, lap dances, public spankings, double fisting, bondage─you name it, I’ve heard about it.

Most of the time, I lap it right up, but sometimes I just want to clear my head of all things sex, so as not to remind myself of what my life is lacking. Granted, I have had my share of sexual adventures─a tryst with Betty Dodson’s boyfriend in a sleazy motel, sex with a porn director, a date where all I did was get spanked and masturbate in front of my spanker. I’ve written about my love of blowjobs, breasts, threesomes, and kinky sex. I’ve even posed for nude photos and had people tell me they’ve jerked off to them.

Yet that’s only a small part of my life. Mostly, I go to work, I go to comedy shows, I hang out with my friends, read and rent movies, go to the gym, and wander around New York City. I geek out over board games, babies, and cupcakes. I’m in daily touch with my parents and weekly touch with my grandparents. And like many other women, I stress out about being late, my student loans, and my weight...

The discrepancy between what people
think I’m doing, what I am doing, and what I want to be doing is sometimes so vast I have no idea how to bridge the gaps.

Here's an Amazon link and the description from there. Other authors include Judy McGuire, Lynn Harris, Rachel Sarah, Sasha Cagen, Jane Ganahl, Jessica Valenti, Suzanne Schlosberg, Sarah Iverson, Lits Dremousis, Michelle Goodman, Margaret Cho, Chelsea Handler, Susan Jane Goodman, Laurie Notaro, and on and on. I'm excited because I am trying to move in the direction of non-fiction, or add that to the fiction mix as much as possible. I put off and put off and put off my essay and Diane was super patient, so I'm really grateful for that. Diane's latest freelance pieces are: "Does your skin need a shrink?" at MSNBC and her Seattle Post-Intelligencer column on guys who disappear. Major thanks to Dategirl Judy McGuire (who just finished her own book about dating, woo-hoo!) for connecting me with Diane.



Are single women happy individualists? Neurotic man-hunters? Crazed cat ladies? Are they confused, or content? Bitter, or better off?

No one seems to know. The popular media gives us shoe shopaholics, ditzy desperados, wannabe brides forever making cow eyes at The Bachelor. But what do single women have to say about their own lives?

With sass, humor, and style,
Single State of the Union paints a provocative, playful, and complex portrait of today's single woman, taking on such topics as:

o sex and the single girl
o single motherhood
o buying a house without a spouse
o faux boyfriends
o cohabitation hesitation
o single women in the media

Written by an impressive roster of single (and some formerly single) women, this collection portrays single women as individuals whose lives extend well beyond Match.com and Manolo Blahniks.

So listen up, Carrie. Attention, Bridget. It's time for the rest of us to be heard.

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