Great Crossdressing review

From Richard Labonte in Book Marks comes this first review of my book Crossdressing (which they now have at Modern Times Bookstore, along with a lot of other kickass books. Last night at the crazily packed Litcrawl reading, we not only heard amazing readers, but I bought Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work, her motherhood memoir, and Heidi bought Alie Liebegott's The IHOP Papers, which I'm so reading next.



Crossdressing: Erotic Stories, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Cleis
Press, 216 pages, $14.95 paper.

Bears and daddies and trannies, fratboys and first timers and country
boys, cowboys and truckers and hot cops, butches and femmes and bi's:
is there anything new when it comes to queer erotica? This collection
of fiction about fishnet stockings, silk panties, and strapon dildos
is raunchy proof that the answer is a titillating and insightful yes.
Most queer erotica is about either girls or boys - sex and gender
don't mix. But Bussel's book breaks down that barrier with panache.
From the woman who gets off on donning a British Beefeater's uniform,
to the man whose Brooks Brother shirt covers a white satin bra, to the
fratboy (yes, the genres do overlap) who thrills that his female drag
turns on the straight boys - the perverts in Crossdressing_ bring
fascinating sexual fluidity to their kink. And, as one character in
Tulsa's Brown's deeply emotional "Temporary" says, it's about more
than fantasy: for the drag queen in her story, crossdressing "was my
deepest truth" – wise words from a porn collection.