Do Me: Sex Tales from Tin House [Paperback]

Steve Almond (Author), Win McCormack (Editor), Rob Spillman (Editor), Lee Montgomery (Editor), Holly MacArthur (Editor), Michelle Wildgen (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 28, 2007

“Is it all right if I reach out and touch you? she said. While you read?”
— Peter Rock, “Blooms”

Do Me gathers the smartest, sexiest fiction and essays from the award-winning journal Tin House. In this collection, the stories do more than just titillate; Tin House authors explore sex from all angles: first moves, breakups, blind gay cruises, furrie conventions, married sex, bad sex, on the phone, and in pools, fun houses, Vegas hotels, and public parks. Hilarious and irreverent, Do Me puts a new spin on bedtime reading and is essential fare for those who crave food for the brain as well as the libido.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Though it boasts a risqué title and cunning cover art, the majority of the stories and essays collected here put the emphasis on the "Me," rather than the "Do." Having first appeared in the literary journal Tin House, these pieces vary widely in terms of structure as well as quality; Michel Lowenthal's "You Don't See the Other Person Looking Back" is one of the book's strongest entries, an engrossing tale of a sighted gay man who embarks on a cruise with blind gay passengers, but it's all too short. Nicholas Montemarano's skillful metafiction "Make Believe" and Denis Johnson's story "Xmas in Las Vegas" are two more strong points; other pieces don't fare so well. Dylan Landis' "Jazz," a short story about a young girl sexually assaulted by a family friend, feels sophomoric, and Mark Jude Poirer's "I, Maggot" seems more interested in impressing the reader with symbolism and imagery than titillating, or even telling a story. Readers interested in literary pyrotechnics and Carver-esque ruminations on the everyday will probably get a great deal out of the book, but those looking for a literary roll in the hay will be disappointed.
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Review

"You name it, you’ll find just about every form of sexual encounter between the pages of this collection."
— New York Times

"These are masterful stories and essays, examples of Tin House literary magazine's excellent reputation."
— Los Angeles Times

"Even as they delve into the darker side of relationships, each of them contains that spark of promise, of hope."
—Ashleigh Lambert, InDigest magazine

"The authors maintain their cock-lock on the reader long after the climax."
— Mellissa Lion, Bookslut

Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Tin House Books (November 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979419808
• ISBN-13: 978-0979419805
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,132,923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Diverse and Excellent Erotica, January 12, 2008

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Andrea Bales - See all my reviews

This review is from: Do Me: Sex Tales from Tin House (Paperback)

This is wonderful book and I must admit I very much like the short story genre, more than the epic erotic novel. You can pick a story and start anywhere in the book. They are all great stories and each of them has a different slant. There are all sorts of styles catered for, there is even a touch of humor in there.Straight sex and adventurous sex whatever you fancy. The characters are solid and the sex is very believable, I'm sure we can all see ourselves in there somewhere and speaking for myself it is also an education. An education I shall be putting into practice.

My husband and myself are not exactly young anymore but this book and others like it, notably Suzie Van Aartman's very excellent and very, very explicit 100 Percent Erotica for instance, have certainly put a fresh sparkle into our sex life.Highly recommended.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Please do, February 8, 2008

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This review is from: Do Me: Sex Tales from Tin House (Paperback)

This is a book that consists of a few short stories.
Some of them are really good.
Puts you in the mood for everything good.
And - makes you think.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars dull and disconnected, August 29, 2008

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Monte Florman (planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Do Me: Sex Tales from Tin House (Paperback)

A major disappointment. Lacking humor, lacking substance, lacking good writing, lacking everything promoted for it.