Best American Erotica 1994 [Paperback]

Susie Bright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2, 1994

The publication of The Best American Erotica 1993 was cause for great celebration and critical praise. It was an immediate sensation and a national bestseller. Now comes The Best American Erotica 1994! This edition features twenty short stories and excerpts, including a mixture of well-known erotica celebs, among them the late John Preston, Pat Califia, and Carol Queen, while also introducing newcomers such as Mark Butler and Abigail Thomas. The Best American Erotica 1994 is a wonderful collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature.

Contributors

Marianna Beck

Bernadette Lynn Bosky

Mark Butler

Pat Califia

M. Christian

Leslie Feinberg

Sigfried Gold

Linda Hooper

Michael Lowenthal

Debra Martens

J. Maynard

Chris Offutt

Gerry Pearlberg

Bart Plantenga

John Preston

Carol Queen

Donald Rawley

Abigail Thomas

Anne Tourney

Danielle Willis

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Bright, editor of the Herotica series, has gathered here a vibrant collection of 20 erotic stories from books and magazines published over the past year. At times tender and at others startling, these stories are anything but boy-meets-girl scenarios. They explore a varied spectrum of sexual sensibilities from gay to straight to transsexual to gender-neutral extraterrestrial. Many of the stories serve to remind readers of the humor inherent in human sexuality, such as the satirical beer commercial incarnated in Mark Butler's "Cool and Clean and Crisp." The exhilarating "Sweating Profusely in Merida: A Memoir" by Carol Queen leaves the reader exhausted right along with the narrator, but the most disturbing tale, "None of the Above," is also the most arousing, in which Bernadette Lynn Bosky takes the sex-with-a-stranger motif to a highly imaginative extreme as her futuristic heroine has an orgy with body-morphed humans and genderless aliens. Although no two stories are alike, the one thing they do share is their portrayal of pure, uninhibited libidos that compel and excite the reader whatever his or her sexual identity.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone (November 2, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671899422
• ISBN-13: 978-0671899424
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,640,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm an author, editor, publisher, performer, sex and culture critic, teacher, seamstress, and pumpkinhead.

I live in Santa Cruz, CA.

My blog is: http://susiebright..com.

My weekly show on Audible:
"In Bed With Susie Bright": http://www.audible.com/susiebright

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, July 1, 2000

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Shawna Lanne "Shawna" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best American Erotica 1994 (Paperback)

When I saw Susie Bright's name on this collection of erotica I knew that I had to have it. The first collection of hers that I read was called HEROTICA and I have been hooked ever since. She is such a great editor that one need not worry at all about the quality of the fiction in her collections. Her books are always guaranteed to be well written and hot. She never fails to include a nice mixture of hetro, homo, and lesbian eroticism with a dollop of fetishism thrown in to her collections. It makes for an eclectic, enjoyable read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I dig Susie, but this was a disappointment, March 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Best American Erotica 1994 (Paperback)

I am a big fan of Susie Bright's own work and her various collected erotica anthologies, but I was really disappointed with this one. While a couple of the stories were very cool-- 'Absolution' and 'None of the Above'-- those are only two out of twenty. I didn't find stories with idiotic and racist characterizations, as in 'Big Nouns, Unconjugated Verbs', the least bit sexy or interesting. And a lot of the other stories seemed like writing exercizes in zeroing on specific fetish audiences without much success. I think so many of these collections are hot, I'd skip this year and choose any of the others.

5.0 out of 5 stars The book that introduced me to erotica!, March 23, 2007

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Tara "Devoted online shopper and Amazon junkie" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Best American Erotica 1994 (Paperback)

I purchased this book as a college student in 1994. I had never even heard of erotica as a genre, much less had any idea that brown-paper covered books might be literary, or that there would be anthologies of material that represented such a broad range of turn-ons and appetites, presented in a healthy and judgement-free way.

I am a huge fan of this year/edition of the fantastic BAE series. Favorite stories from this edition include the compelling and baldly poetic tale of desperate need "Slow Dance on the Fault Line" - WOW!!!! and the *hot* and *damp* "Sweating Profusely in Merida: A Memoir" (sweaty, slick and visceral...)

Virtually anything Susie Bright touches turns to gold. I had the pleasure of meeting her once at a book reading/signing at Skylight Books in Los Feliz (Los Angeles). I am forever grateful to her and this volume in particular. I've had 13 years of happy erotica-binging ever since! As Susie might say, "Clits Up!"