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Susie Bright

Susie Bright is the editor of The Best American Erotica series and host of the weekly audio show In Bed with Susie Bright on Audible.com. She has been a columnist for Playboy and Salon, and has been profiled in USA TODAY, Los Angeles Times, Esquire,... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Je ne Regrette Rien Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. Capitalism. Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. Warm, tranquil turquoise water would hit the spot right about now. Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain? A. Cruella de Ville Q. What’s your greatest flaw? A. Impatience. Learn more about Susie Bright

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Aint It Cool News, January 16, 2012
...author of the BFI Film Classics book Belle de jour New video piece featuring writer and sexual-politics activist Susie Bright and film scholar Linda Williams New interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière Excerpt from the French television program...
San Jose Mercury News, January 8, 2012
...Richard Hoover, guitar maker 2002: Helene, belly dancer Geoffrey Dunn, writer/filmmaker Audrey Stanley, stage director Suzanne Schrag, actor Susie Bright, writer Jim Urban, illustrator/painter Dror Sinai, percussionist/businessman Albert Kent, Mary Ann...
Examiner.com, January 2, 2012
...latest installment in the annual Best Sex Writing anthology from Cleis Press? This one, selected and introduced by Susie Bright and edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, collects two dozen of the best non-fiction sex-on-the-brain think-pieces published in...
Talking Points Memo, December 12, 2011
...commentator for The New Yorker @PourMeCoffee, Twitter celebrity extraordinaire Dahlia Lithwick, law and legal affairs writer at Slate Susie Bright, author, sexologist, analyst of erotic endeavors And there’s one more mystery judge. And you’ll do a...
Windy City Times, October 9, 2011
...Tune, Joan Nestle, Holly Woodlawn, RuPaul, Darrell Yates Rist, Sarah Schulman, Paul Monette, Chuck Renslow, Jerry Herman, Sapphire, Susie Bright, Michael Cunningham, Dennis Cooper, Janis Ian, Pam Tent, Jewelle Gomez, Michelangelo Signorile, George...
Windy City Times, October 5, 2011
...Tune, Joan Nestle, Holly Woodlawn, RuPaul, Darrell Yates Rist, Sarah Schulman, Paul Monette, Chuck Renslow, Jerry Herman, Sapphire, Susie Bright, Michael Cunningham, Dennis Cooper, Janis Ian, Pam Tent, Jewelle Gomez, Michelangelo Signorile, George...
Huffington Post, September 8, 2011
...At the end of the summer I attended a parlor game, a book group, where one of the questions was, "Which novels have you read more than once?"  It took a while to get to my turn, and while I was listening to the rest of the circle, I spied the the...
LUSTY LADY, September 23, 2011
...Reading Series in New York for five years. Her writing has been published in over 100 anthologies, including Susie Bright’s X: The Erotic Treasury, Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and Zane’s Purple Panties and the New York Times bestseller...
LUSTY LADY, September 15, 2011
...Reading Series in New York for five years. Her writing has been published in over 100 anthologies, including Susie Bright’s X: The Erotic Treasury, Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and Zane’s Purple Panties and the New York Times bestseller...
So Many Books, July 26, 2011
...from young to old and include the likes of Fay Weldon, Susan Cheever, Anne Roiphe, Eve Ensler, and Susie Bright. Some of the essays are filled with humor, like Julie Klam describing the experience of her first "night of passion" as a "Saint-Bernard-style...
Our far-flung correspondents, July 18, 2011
...a realistic depiction of the lesbian relationship in their movie, the Wachowski brothers recruited a writer of eroticism, Susie Bright, as their consultant; she briefly appears in the lesbian bar scene. With a shady atmosphere provided by cinematographer...
LUSTY LADY, July 6, 2011
...Reading Series in New York for five years. Her writing has been published in over 100 anthologies, including Susie Bright’s X: The Erotic Treasury, Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006 , and Zane’s Purple Panties and the New York Times bestseller...
LUSTY LADY, July 5, 2011
...Reading Series in New York for five years. Her writing has been published in over 100 anthologies, including Susie Bright’s X: The Erotic Treasury, Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006 , and Zane’s Purple Panties and the New York Times bestseller...
The Rumpus.net, June 26, 2011
...Nose Still Mine — A review of Shane McCrae’s first book of poetry, Mule . Elissa Bassist interviews Susie Bright , sex positive feminist. And be sure not to miss this Rumpus interview with Martin Atkins . Related Posts: No related posts…...