Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors [Hardcover]

Michael Rowe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1995 | ISBN-10: 1563333635 | ISBN-13: 978-1563333637 | Edition: 1st Richard Kasak Bk. ed

Award-winning journalist Michael Rowe interviewed the best and brightest erotic writersboth those well-known for their work in the field and those just starting outand presents the collected wisdom in Writing Below the Belt. In each of these revealing conversations, the personal, the political and the just plain prurient collide and complement one another in fascinating wayswhich should be no surprise, given the fact that each of these writers can be counted among the genre's most talented practitioners.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A stimulating collection of conversations with fifteen of the most talented in the field... -- fab! magazine

Product Details

• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: Richard Kasak Book; 1st Richard Kasak Bk. ed edition (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563333635
• ISBN-13: 978-1563333637
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,817,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Rowe is a Canadian novelist and award-winning independent journalist who has lived in Beirut, Havana, Geneva, and Paris. His work has appeared in the National Post, the Globe & Mail, The United Church Observer and numerous other publications. He has been a finalist for both the Canadian National Magazine Award and the Associated Church Press Award in the United States. The author of several books, including Writing Below the Belt, a critically acclaimed study of censorship, pornography, and popular culture, and the essay collections Looking For Brothers and Other Men's Sons, which won the 2008 Randy Shilts Award for Nonfiction, he has also won the Lambda Literary Award. Between 2001 and 2009 he was a contributing writer to The Advocate. He is currently a political blogger for The Huffington Post.

His first novel, Enter, Night was published in October 2011 by ChiZine Publications.