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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, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. An international lecturer on sexuality and feminism, she won the 2004 Writer of the Year Award at the Erotic Awards in London. Ms. Bright lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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Best American Erotica 1995 will be released on October 01, 2008 in eBook
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The Best American Erotica 1996 will be released on October 01, 2008 in eBook
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Best American Erotica 1995 will be released on October 01, 2008 in eBook
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The Best American Erotica 1996 will be released on October 01, 2008 in eBook
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Best American Erotica 1995 will be released on October 01, 2008 in eBook
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The Best American Erotica 1996 will be released on October 01, 2008 in eBook
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Table of Contents from How to Write a Dirty Story
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Concordia Link, October 8, 2009
...as so sexually liberated, there?s no sex writing community,? she said. Roberts pointed to writers such as Susie Bright, Violet Blue and Audacia Ray as authors who have raised the profile of erotica and wants to see Montrealers get the same exposure....
PublishersWeekly.com, August 3, 2009
...Books has created lush packaging for its new anthology Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories (Sept.), edited by erotica superstar Susie Bright. Bright's anthology features new stories by predominantly YA author Francesca Lia Block and screenwriter Sera Gamble, who...
Examiner.com, May 30, 2009
...s been roaring his counterculture views since the 1960s. In Praise of Indecency opens with an interview between Susie Bright and Krassner. Bright, without much effort at all, gets Krassner to discuss his thoughts about drug use and his personal sexual...
New York Times, April 18, 2009
...sexual culture, the feminist defense of pornography in Caught Looking, the frank and funny essays by women like Susie Bright and Carol Queen: all of this is easy enough to find. Part of the controversy over Wetlands has been whether it is pornography or...
San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 2009
...coddled on every screen and page. The basket weighs heavier than any of us would like to admit. Susie Bright is the author-editor of 30-plus books, including her latest, 'X: The Erotic Treasury' (Chronicle Books). She blogs at susiebright.com. E-mail her...
Content Agenda, April 17, 2009
...Garland. Then it became obvious that it wasn't just gay-themed books - it was erotica in general. Susie Bright's popular series of erotic anthologies also disappeared. To be clear, the books were still available for purchase; they just didn't show up on...
Examiner.com, April 9, 2009
...far: @sashagrey. And then there's my current porn crush, Stoya (pictured at left): @stoya, another devoted Twitterer. Susie Bright, author and editor, most recently, of X: The Erotic Treasury (Putting the X in Sex) and a couple dozen other sexy books is...
Examiner.com, February 21, 2009
...cake. Quite delicious when washed down with a vodka tonic. The February 19th reading included the world famous Susie Bright. She is one of the first writers to be referred to as a sex positive feminist, and founded the first erotica book series,...
New York Times, February 11, 2009
...Susie Bright is an expert in erotic forensics. Her latest book is and she blogs at susiebright.com. I was fortunate in the depths of my greatest erotic humiliation, to seek...
PublishersWeekly.com, January 11, 2009
...Philippa Gregory Touchstone/Simon & Schuster Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 Annie Proulx Scribner The Best American Erotica 2005 Susie Bright, editor Touchstone/Simon & Schuster Controlled Burn Scott Wolven Scribner The Sugar Camp Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini...
San Francisco Chronicle, December 25, 2008
...exists purely for female pleasure - that one might want to protect 'the children' from knowing about it. Susie Bright said that the word . Maybe it's just a glitch. Or maybe clitoris really is a myth, after all. 4. Minors: Harmful to Themselves? A...
TampaBLAB, September 27, 2009
...huh. reading stuff that susie bright linked to, i came across David Healey’s Let them Eat Prozac. While I find Healey’s writing more than a little confusing — he’s not a good...
Jiz Lee, September 10, 2009
...reading a new book right now, Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories , a collection of erotica short stories edited by Susie Bright . It will be the next review I do for CarnalNation.com; my first was on Visible: A Femmethology . This collection has been fantastic...
RAINCOAST BOOKS, September 8, 2009
...Author, activist, performer, lecturer, audio show host, sex guru, teacher, AND mom, Susie Bright (whose website is NOT entirely safe for work just FYI—it’s about erotica people!) has a guest post today at (un) Death Match (our zombie vs. vampire...
Alexandria, September 2, 2009
...epidemic of cancer among indigenous populations…. The book: Bitten , a book of “dark erotic” short stories, edited by Susie Bright. I got this one, actually autographed by Susie, by entering a contest she had on Facebook for free copies. The...
LUSTY LADY, August 13, 2009
...Reading Series in New York since October 2005. 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...
Jezebel, June 15, 2009
...wrong. In a few minutes, we thought of the following steamy female sex writers : Annie Sprinkle, Anais Nin, Susie Bright, Pauline Reage, Erica Jong , Anne Rice under her pseudonym A.N. Roquelaire, and Rachel Kramer Bussel, whose In the Flesh Reading...
Wikipedia - New pages [en], May 29, 2009
...more sexiness— and pleasure of all kinds— in classic literature than most people would ever dream of.” — Susie Bright , editor of the Best American Erotica series " Murnighan's…fresh, funny voice…will attract devout readers [and] the...
2009: Another Year of the Books, May 17, 2009
...With Mars and Venus Neil Gaiman Port and Cappuccino Sage A Vu Saskia Walker Smut Girl Steve Perry Susie Bright Tess Gerritsen Wendy Wootton Writing the Life Poetic Bookshelf Hal Spacejock Holly Lisle Justine Larbalestier Timothy Hallinan Tags...
LUSTY LADY, April 24, 2009
...forthcoming from Chronicle Books forthcoming from Cleis Press (actually found this one looking up Susie Bright on Amazon) Labels: Adventures in book covers , Bitten , In Praise of Indecency , Paul Krassner , Susie Bright...
LUSTY LADY, April 13, 2009
...Susie Bright rocking her tiara in February 2009 at In The Flesh; photo by Stacie Joy If this isn't a ringing endorsement from the one and only Susie Bright, I...
Susie Bright's Journal, April 13, 2009
...that offend Pentacostal Paranoia? That's a heck of job. When are you going to make this right? Susie Bright...
marquise, March 9, 2009
...Celluloid Closet online by clicking here! The stunning cast in this movie is wondrous: Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents, Armistead Maupin Surely an award winning production with characters that you can exceedingly relate to, the...
CRAFT Magazine, February 27, 2009
...Duct Tape And Cardboard Puppet Theater Aspirin Doily Rag Rug Handbag Tutorial Door Organizer Shawnimals Downloadable Character Avatars Susie Bright's Home Ec: Dress Me, You Fool! Fabric Klein Bottle Refashioned Knee High Socks into Baby Leg Warmers...
CRAFT Magazine, February 27, 2009
...Duct Tape And Cardboard Puppet Theater Aspirin Doily Rag Rug Handbag Tutorial Door Organizer Shawnimals Downloadable Character Avatars Susie Bright's Home Ec: Dress Me, You Fool! Fabric Klein Bottle Refashioned Knee High Socks into Baby Leg Warmers...
CRAFT Magazine, February 27, 2009
...Duct Tape And Cardboard Puppet Theater Aspirin Doily Rag Rug Handbag Tutorial Door Organizer Shawnimals Downloadable Character Avatars Susie Bright's Home Ec: Dress Me, You Fool! Fabric Klein Bottle Refashioned Knee High Socks into Baby Leg Warmers...
Babeland's Blog, February 9, 2009
...about.com has a new ecourse called 9 Weeks to Better Sex. I’m signing up for it. Susie Bright has a new book coming out with a book trailer ! We’ll carry the book very soon, I promise...
Neon Fiction, January 20, 2009
...the sultry "Yes" and she'll be out doing readings in support of the collection, along with editor Susie Bright and a few other contributors. Here are the dates you can check them out. Diesel, A Bookstore Oakland January 22 7pm Greta Christina Donna...
amir, January 18, 2009
...Celluloid Closet online by clicking here! The astounding cast in this movie is eye-opening: Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents, Armistead Maupin Most assuredly an award winning portrayal with characters that you can powerfully relate...
Jon Swift, January 8, 2009
...head in shame. Best Science Blog : Greg Laden is dead last. Now I am angry. Best LGBT Blog : Susie Bright is holding up the rear, which would probably have a different meaning on her blog. Help her out. Best Individual Blogger : Driftglass is in third...
Boing Boing, December 29, 2008
...faithful reader that I am, sipping coffee in the Comments. Photo: Susie and her darling, "practically-perfect-in-every-way" daughter, Aretha. (Susie Bright is a guest blogger) Note from Mark: Thanks, Susie for your wonderful, enlightening, and...
urse blog, December 1, 2008
...and Tony Curtis worked wonderful in The Celluloid Closet. The great supporting cast includes Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents, Armistead Maupin. WATCH The Celluloid Closet ONLINE BY CLICKING HERE! I think Lily Tomlin and Tony...
hey blog, November 27, 2008
...and Tony Curtis worked wonderful in The Celluloid Closet. The great supporting cast includes Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents, Armistead Maupin. WATCH The Celluloid Closet ONLINE BY CLICKING HERE! I think Lily Tomlin and Tony...
Greta Christina's Blog, November 26, 2008
...example of, and the process of writing porn... what do all these have to do with each other? Susie Bright (of Best American Erotica fame, and of Susie Bright's Journal fame) has put together a new erotica anthology, X: The Erotic Treasury . It's a...