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Guided by the genius of Susie Bright, 'the avatar of American erotica' (New York Times), the Best American Erotica series has sold an astonishing 450,000 copies. Now the latest edition promises to offer readers a whole new level of risque reading, mingling tales by the genre's most sought-after veterans and up-and-comers with some of the biggest names in contemporary literature. Best American Erotica 2007 traces the 'Lolita Gap' - stories that show boomers reflecting on their past sexual glories while mightily trying to control the young people they envy. 'Envy', by Kathryn Harrison, features a psychiatrist who discovers that the one client he had sex with happens to be his long lost daughter. Dennis Cooper's 'The Sluts' tells the explicit story of an extraordinary young hustler working his Johns. And Jessica Cutler's novel 'The Washingtonienne' follows a young woman as she drags Washington's grey-haired elite down in to a scandal pit with nothing more than the crook of her pretty little finger. For readers who enjoy straight, gay, disciplined, and other forms of erotic fantasy, Best American Erotica 2007 brings the genre's greatest series to an exciting new climax.

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"""Like a good lover, Susie Bright's latest anthology of smart erotica surprises, shocks, warms, and makes the reader wet with page-turning anticipation. Climb into bed with this little devil and you may not want to get out."" -- Lisa Beth Kovetz, author of The Tuesday Erotica Club"

Sexologist Bright's annual paean to the more physical aspects of love.Since the Internet has affected every aspect of life in the 21st century, it's no surprise that several of the 23 stories in Bright's 14th anthology feature it. These include Dennis Cooper's contribution, an excerpt from his novel, The Sluts, which tells the story of a gay-for-pay hustler named Brad through successive customer reviews on a hook-up site, and Alexander Chee's Best Friendster Date Ever, which charts the progress of an online connection that takes on a (very) physical dimension. Six of the entries this year are excerpts from literary novels. There is Kathryn Harrison's Envy, in which a young patient seduces her psychiatrist (who turns out to be her father); Jessica Cutler's The Washingtonienne, featuring a cocaine-fueled threesome; Alicia Erian's Towelhead, offering a look at make-up sex; and Daniel Duane's A Mouth Like Yours, in which a tenth-grade boy's dream comes true right under the nose of his girlfriend's father. Not all the stories possess the same level of skill, but most match Bright's exuberantly positive attitude toward sex. Among the best of those are Susan St. Aubi's Taste, in which two late-night bakers treat each other to secret delicacies, and Susan DiPlacido's Heads-Up Poker, featuring a strip-poker game where every player comes up a winner. Inevitably, there are entries that push so far into sexual fantasy that it becomes difficult to suspend disbelief. Some of the too-blue-to-buy stories include Nicolas Kaufmann's Comeback and Marie Lyn Bernard's What Happened to That Girl. It is the imbalance of collecting gorgeously sensuous writing with genre claptrap that is this anthology's weakness and its strength. The great writing shows the hackneyed slap-and-tickle prose in the worst possible light. But to exclude the latter would be to deny part of the diversity and proclivity of human sexuality. And Bright has always known that.Another year, another celebration of sex. (Kirkus Reviews)

Like a good lover, Susie Bright's latest anthology of smart erotica surprises, shocks, warms, and makes the reader wet with page-turning anticipation. Climb into bed with this little devil and you may not want to get out. <p>-- Lisa Beth Kovetz, author of The Tuesday Erotica Club

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Susie Bright has been the editor of the Best American Erotica series since 1993 and is known as the founder of the erotica genre. A columnist for Playboy and Salon, Bright has been profiled in USA Today, the L.A. Times, the San Francisco Review of Books, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Penthouse and Vanity Fair. She also won an Erotic Oscar in 1999 for Best Film for Susie Bright, Sex Pest, a documentary produced and broadcast in the UK.

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