Reading at In The Flesh in October
I'll be reading at In The Flesh with some sexy writers:
IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 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.com
In The Flesh gets literary in October with racy words from short story
writer Jami Attenberg (Instant Love), spoken word impresario Mo
Beasley and members of his dirty-word powerhouse UrbanErotika,
Christen Clifford (Baby Love, 17 Guys I Fucked), novelist
Marcy Dermansky (Twins), San Francisco-based author Stephen Elliott
(My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up, Happy Baby), and
erotica writer P.F. Kozak (Passions, Sins and Secrets), along with
host Rachel Kramer Bussel (Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and
Exhibitionists; Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2). Copies
of the authors' books will be given away, and 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
Village Voice sex columnist and 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. Future themed nights include Revenge of the Sex
Columnists (September), comic sex (November) and erotic memoirs. Since
its debut in October 2005, In the Flesh has featured such authors as
Andy Horwitz, 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, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette.
For more information, please visit
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com or contact In The Flesh
host and curator Rachel Kramer Bussel at rachelkb at gmail.com.
Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic
novels, books, television, and urban life for Salon, Print, Nylon, the
San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Her fiction has been published by
Pindeldyboz, Nerve, Spork, and Bullfight Review. Her debut collection
of stories, Instant Love, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books
in June 2006. A novel, The Kept Man, will be published by Riverhead
Books in 2007. www.jamiattenberg.com
Mo Beasley is a performance poet and Producing Director of
UrbanErotika. Affectionately known as The Head Coach of Erotica,
founded and hosts New York' s longest running monthly erotic showcase:
UrbanErotika. Since 2001, UE has featured the passions of all cultures
and lifestyles united to express true eros through spoken word,
poetry, music, & dance.
www.thelovestorm.com
Rachel Kramer Bussel is a New York City-based author and editor. She
is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations and a Contributing Editor and
columnist for Penthouse, writes the Lusty Lady column for The Village
Voice, and conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com.
Her erotic stories have appeared in over 60 anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and she's edited her own
collections, including Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2,
Up All Night, First-Timers, Glamour Girls, and the forthcoming
Ultimate Undies, Sexiest Soles, Secret Slaves, and Caught Looking:
Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists. Rachel has also written
for AVN, Bust, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, Time Out New York
and Velvetpark. www.rachelkramerbussel.com
Christen Clifford's most recent solo show, BabyLove, had its world
premiere at the Mesto Zensk Festival in Ljubljana,Slovenia in 2005. It
has also been produced in New York at Center Stage New York as part of
Terra Nova Collective's 3rd Solo Arts Festival, at The Hudson Guild
Theatre, and at 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival and will be seen in
late October 2006 in Toronto. Actor: most recently the title role in
The Woman Before, directed by Daniel Fish in New York. Clifford is an
MFA Candidate in Creative Non-Fiction at The New School.
www.christenclifford.com
Marcy Dermansky's first novel Twins, a 2005 New York Times Editor's
Choice pick, will be released in paperback this October from
HarperCollins. A MacDowell Fellow, Marcy is the winner of the 2002
Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the 1999 Story Magazine
Carson McCullers short story prize. Her short stories have appeared in
numerous literary journals, including McSweeneys, The Alaska Quarterly
Review, and The Indiana Review. She reviews independent and foreign
film for about About.com. Marcy is not an identical twin.
www.marcydermansky.com
Stephen Elliott is the author of six books including Happy Baby and My
Girlfriend Comes To The City And Beats Me Up. His writing has also
appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, The Village Voice, Best
American Erotica, Best Sex Writing, Best Non-Required Reading, among
others.
www.stephenelliott.com
P. F. Kozak has had a unique perspective on sexuality since she
discovered playing doctor, long before puberty. Once her hormones
blended with her imagination, exotic erotic fantasies were born, and
stories filled her head. With the publication of her first two books,
Passion and Sins and Secrets, being a writer is no longer a castle in
the sky. www.pfkozak.com
IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 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.com
In The Flesh gets literary in October with racy words from short story
writer Jami Attenberg (Instant Love), spoken word impresario Mo
Beasley and members of his dirty-word powerhouse UrbanErotika,
Christen Clifford (Baby Love, 17 Guys I Fucked), novelist
Marcy Dermansky (Twins), San Francisco-based author Stephen Elliott
(My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up, Happy Baby), and
erotica writer P.F. Kozak (Passions, Sins and Secrets), along with
host Rachel Kramer Bussel (Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and
Exhibitionists; Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2). Copies
of the authors' books will be given away, and 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
Village Voice sex columnist and 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. Future themed nights include Revenge of the Sex
Columnists (September), comic sex (November) and erotic memoirs. Since
its debut in October 2005, In the Flesh has featured such authors as
Andy Horwitz, 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, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette.
For more information, please visit
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com or contact In The Flesh
host and curator Rachel Kramer Bussel at rachelkb at gmail.com.
Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic
novels, books, television, and urban life for Salon, Print, Nylon, the
San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Her fiction has been published by
Pindeldyboz, Nerve, Spork, and Bullfight Review. Her debut collection
of stories, Instant Love, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books
in June 2006. A novel, The Kept Man, will be published by Riverhead
Books in 2007. www.jamiattenberg.com
Mo Beasley is a performance poet and Producing Director of
UrbanErotika. Affectionately known as The Head Coach of Erotica,
founded and hosts New York' s longest running monthly erotic showcase:
UrbanErotika. Since 2001, UE has featured the passions of all cultures
and lifestyles united to express true eros through spoken word,
poetry, music, & dance.
www.thelovestorm.com
Rachel Kramer Bussel is a New York City-based author and editor. She
is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations and a Contributing Editor and
columnist for Penthouse, writes the Lusty Lady column for The Village
Voice, and conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com.
Her erotic stories have appeared in over 60 anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and she's edited her own
collections, including Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2,
Up All Night, First-Timers, Glamour Girls, and the forthcoming
Ultimate Undies, Sexiest Soles, Secret Slaves, and Caught Looking:
Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists. Rachel has also written
for AVN, Bust, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, Time Out New York
and Velvetpark. www.rachelkramerbussel.com
Christen Clifford's most recent solo show, BabyLove, had its world
premiere at the Mesto Zensk Festival in Ljubljana,Slovenia in 2005. It
has also been produced in New York at Center Stage New York as part of
Terra Nova Collective's 3rd Solo Arts Festival, at The Hudson Guild
Theatre, and at 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival and will be seen in
late October 2006 in Toronto. Actor: most recently the title role in
The Woman Before, directed by Daniel Fish in New York. Clifford is an
MFA Candidate in Creative Non-Fiction at The New School.
www.christenclifford.com
Marcy Dermansky's first novel Twins, a 2005 New York Times Editor's
Choice pick, will be released in paperback this October from
HarperCollins. A MacDowell Fellow, Marcy is the winner of the 2002
Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the 1999 Story Magazine
Carson McCullers short story prize. Her short stories have appeared in
numerous literary journals, including McSweeneys, The Alaska Quarterly
Review, and The Indiana Review. She reviews independent and foreign
film for about About.com. Marcy is not an identical twin.
www.marcydermansky.com
Stephen Elliott is the author of six books including Happy Baby and My
Girlfriend Comes To The City And Beats Me Up. His writing has also
appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, The Village Voice, Best
American Erotica, Best Sex Writing, Best Non-Required Reading, among
others.
www.stephenelliott.com
P. F. Kozak has had a unique perspective on sexuality since she
discovered playing doctor, long before puberty. Once her hormones
blended with her imagination, exotic erotic fantasies were born, and
stories filled her head. With the publication of her first two books,
Passion and Sins and Secrets, being a writer is no longer a castle in
the sky. www.pfkozak.com
posted by Christen Clifford - BabyLove at 11:46 AM
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