Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex [Paperback]

Stacy Bias (Editor), Rachel Kramer Bussel (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2004

In the tradition of the erotic bestsellers Skin Deep and Early Embraces, Up All Night presents the uncensored sizzling words of real women describing their hottest, wildest erotic adventures.

Stacy Bias is the founder of Technodyke.com, the gathering place for the web-savvy dyke. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Rachel Kramer Bussel is an editorial assistant at On Our Backs and has contributed writings to Starf*cker, Best Lesbian Erotica 2001, and Hot & Bothered 3. She lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Rachel Kramer Bussel previously edited the best-selling erotica collection Up All Night. She is the coauthor of The Lesbian Sex Book and a sex columnist for The Village Voice. She lives in New York City. Visit her Web site at www.rachelkramerbussel.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Alyson Books (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555837476
• ISBN-13: 978-1555837471
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #830,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #98 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Nonfiction > Sexuality

More About the Author

I'm a writer, editor, and blogger - basically, I do a little bit of everything, from erotic fiction to book reviews to conducting interviews to writing articles and essays. I got started writing erotica while attending law school (which I left to pursue my writing), and my first story, "Monica and Me" was published in an anthology called Starf* cker, edited by Shar Rednour. Since then, I've gone on to pen dozens of stories, which are published or slated to be published in over 100 anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006 and Best Women's Erotica 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007.

NOTE: You can see the real, full titles below, but Amazon will not let me put in the word "s e x" spelled out, so I've had to improvise, even though it IS in the title of some of my books!

I've edited over 20 anthologies, most recently Tasting Him, Tasting Her, Spanked, Rubber S-x, Dirty Girls, Best S-x Writing 2008, Yes, Sir, Yes, Ma'am, Crossdressing, and more.

I used to write the Lusty Lady column for The Village Voice and now write about relationships, books, and pop culture for a variety of publications. I conduct interviews for Gothamist.com, where I've interviewed various artists, authors, and other interesting folks including Augusten Burroughs, Jessica Coen, Clare Crespo, Eve Ensler, Christian Finnegan, Nadine Haobsh, Molly Jong-Fast, Anya Kamenetz, Stephanie Lessing, Susan Polgar, Julie Powell, M.J. Rose, Susan Shapiro, Tucker Shaw, John Stossel, Tristan Taormino, Ned Vizzini, Jeannette Walls, and Koren Zailckas, Victoria Zdrok, and Mediabistro.com, where I conduct the "From the Editors" series and have done 3 Citizen Media Critic essays, on the magazines Lucky, his and hers, and Violet. I have also written for various publications, including Alternative Press, AVN, The Black Table, Bust, Cleansheets.com, Curve, Diva, Girlfriends, Metro, New York Post, Penthouse, Penthouse Forum, Playgirl, Rockrgrl, On Our Backs, Oxygen.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York and Zink. I've been interviewed by Bookmouth, Lippy Imp, New York magazine, Playboy's Night Calls, and Suicide Girls, and have appeared on The Derek and Romaine Show, The Joey Reynolds Show, KS E X Radio, Showtime's Family Business, and The Berman and Berman Show.

I host a monthly erotic reading series called In The Flesh (http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com) every 3rd Thursday of the month at a bar called Happy Ending. We've had some amazing readers, including Jessica Cutler, Maxim Jakubowski, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Tsaurah Litzky, M.J. Rose, Danyel Smith, Carol Taylor, Zane and others.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This one's pretty hit-or-miss..., May 29, 2005

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J. Caruso "JC" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex (Paperback)

So I had really high hopes for this compilation, especially due to the involvement of Stacy Bias, girl wonder. However, some of the stories were simply poorly written. Cliches abounded, and I found myself distracted from what would otherwise be a perfectly hot story with an interesting enough plot by the sophomorish writing.

Don't get me wrong, there are some really great stories with wonderful writing, and some are truly outstanding. It's worth getting. Just not as totally fabulous as I'd hoped.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HOT HOT HOT!!, January 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex (Paperback)

Up All Night is a perfect erotica collection, with stories that runs the gamut from naughty to tender, smoldering hot to gentle flames that lick at you lightly until they get you totally turned on. Many of them feature couples trying out new roles, such as in Khadijah Caturani's "Ungentlemanly Behavior," when a very unchivalrous butch gets what's coming to him! Others show friends going beyond the bounds of friendship into much sexier territory, such as in "The Sex Test" by Alison Tyler and Zonna's incredibly tormenting "Games." That these stories are true is simply icing on the cake. "Insert Three Fingers Here" and "Caged" are some of the more delightful titles, and all of these naughty tales are sure to get you worked up. The passionate emotional truths underlying the amazingly hot, kinky and varied sex make this one a keeper. To quote a recent New York magazine cover story, "these are NOT your mother's lesbians." They are modern girls who know what they want and go after it, whether it's an alluring stranger in a club, a hot train conducter, or that very special person - their own lover.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Adventures, Hot Sex and Heartfelt Emotions, February 7, 2004

By 

Jane Simpson "reader of erotica" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex (Paperback)

Up All Night kept me reading from start to finish because each of the authors really gets into their heads and hearts - this book has plenty of amazing sex scenes, but it also has something that erotica needs more of - real emotions. The writers all take us inside their complex emotions, showing fear, anger, love, intensity, nerves, intrigue, lust, desire and so much more. The truth rings clearly as they get it on and bare their bodies and souls, taking risks that may change the course of their lives or relationships, even if only for a few hot moments. Up All Night is certainly one of the best of the "true erotica" genre and is filled with highly memorable, enjoyable, sexy scenarios that are unique and realistic. A real winner that will appeal to any erotica fan!