Julie Powell, Paula Derrow et al 2/24 at KGB Bar

I missed Ignite NYC tonight because I wasn't paying attention, and just found out about this, but I'm so going. Julie Powell's essay "Lost in Space" in Behind the Bedroom Door is a must-read for kinksters and if I don't get to republish it in Best Sex Writing 2010, I will cry.



You can also hear Paula Derrow, Pari Chang, and Anna Marrian read from Behind the Bedroom Door at the March 19th In The Flesh.

From KGB Nonfiction curator Kelly McMasters:

Tuesday February 24: KGB Tuesday Night Nonfiction offers you a belated
valentine with readings from the anthology BEHIND THE BEDROOM DOOR

DETAILS:
KGB Tuesday Night Nonfiction
7-8:30pm, Free!
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St
(btw Bowery and 2nd Ave)
kgbbar.com

BEHIND THE BEDROOM DOOR: Getting it, Giving it, Loving it, Missing it

Readers: ***Pari Chang, Stephanie Dolgoff, Julie Powell, Abby Sher,
Martha Southgate, and Betsy Stephens, along with editor Paula
Derrow***

ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY

What's Behind the Bedroom Door?

We may not admit it, but we're all curious about what goes on in other
people's bedrooms. After all, we live in a world saturated with sex,
which makes it tough not to wonder how we measure up—and even tougher
to talk about our experiences honestly. In this frank, poignant
collection, twenty-six acclaimed writers go Behind the Bedroom Door
and lay bare the messy, mind-blowing, often hilarious encounters that
make up a woman's sexual history. Telling the truth about sex—how we
like it, how often we get it, how it affects us—isn't easy. This
eye-opening anthology tells the truth about women's intimate lives,
shattering some deeply entrenched myths about what goes on in the
bedrooms of real women along the way. Find more information here:
behindthebedroomdoor.typepad.com

And not about sex, but because I'm so jonesing to read Powell's new memoir Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, here's a video from YouTube of her visiting a butcher shop:

March 19th In The Flesh lineup

And of course don't miss Susie Bright on February 19th, 7:30 pm start time!

And April 16th's Virgin Night is also going to be awesome! Lineup TK.

IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
March 19th at 8:00 PM
AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey or F/V to 2nd Avenue, http://www.happyendinglounge.com)
Admission: Free, 21+
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com

March brings an eclectic mix of true sex stories, erotic romance, hotel sex, a graphic novelist and a former Jehovah’s Witness to In The Flesh! Featuring Paula Derrow, editor of the anthology Behind the Bedroom Door, along with contributors Anna Marrian and Pari Chang, graphic novelist Koren Shadmi, author of the fabulously titled In The Flesh, memoirist and former Jehovah’s Witness Kyria Abrahams (I’m Perfect, You’re Doomed), first-time novelist Victoria Janssen (The Duchess, Her Maid, the Groom and Their Lover) and Tess Danesi and In The Flesh host/curator Rachel Kramer Bussel reading from Rachel’s latest anthology Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories. The Do Not Disturb book trailer will also be shown. Mobile Libris will be selling copies of the authors’ books. 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, Susie Bright, 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, Zane and many others. The series has gotten press attention from the New York Times’s UrbanEye, Escape (Hong Kong), Flavorpill, The L Magazine, New York Magazine, New York Observer, Philadelphia City Paper, Time Out New York, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette, and has been praised by Dr. Ruth.

You'll be hearing from these books: