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IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
\nTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21st at 8 PM
\nAT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC (B\/D to Grand, J\/M\/Z to
\nBowery, F to Delancey, <\/strong>http:\/\/www.happyendinglounge.com<\/strong><\/a>)
\nAdmission: Free
\nHappy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676<\/strong><\/p>\n

A superstar erotica evening celebrating the release of two hot new anthologies. Featuring Stephen Elliott, <\/strong>editor of Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica,<\/em> along with contributor Nick Flynn<\/strong> (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City<\/em>) and New York Times<\/em> bestselling author Zane<\/strong> (Addicted, The Heat Seekers<\/em>) celebrating the release of Succulent: Chocolate Flava II,<\/em> along with Succulent<\/em> contributors Michelle Robinson<\/strong> and In The Flesh host\/curator Rachel Kramer Bussel<\/strong> (Best Sex Writing 2008, He’s on Top, She’s on Top<\/em>). Books will be available for sale from Mobile Libris.<\/a> Free candy and cupcakes will be served.<\/p>\n

In the Flesh<\/strong> is a monthly reading series hosted at the appropriately named Happy Ending Lounge, and features the city’s best erotic writers sharing stories to get you hot and bothered, hosted and curated by acclaimed erotic writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel. From erotic poetry to down and dirty smut, these authors get naked on the page and will make you lust after them and their words.<\/p>\n

Rachel Kramer Bussel<\/strong> is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations,<\/em> conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com, and wrote the popular Lusty Lady column for The Village Voice. <\/em>Her erotic stories have been published in over 100 anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004<\/em> and 2006,<\/em> and she\u2019s edited numerous anthologies, most recently Best Sex Writing 2008, Hide and Seek, Crossdressing, He\u2019s on Top<\/em> and She\u2019s on Top.<\/em> Rachel has also written for AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK,<\/em> Gothamist, Mediabistro, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York<\/em> and Velvetpark.<\/em>
\nlustylady.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Stephen Elliott<\/strong> is the author of the political memoir Looking Forward To It,<\/em> the novel Happy Baby,<\/em> and the story collection My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up.<\/em> He lives in San Francisco.
\nwww.stephenelliott.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Nick Flynn<\/strong>‘s book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City <\/em>(Norton, 2004) won the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether<\/em> (Graywolf, 2000) and Blind Huber<\/em> (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays, and nonfiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, The Paris Review,<\/em> National Public Radio’s This American Life, and the New York Times Book Review. <\/em>His film credits include “field poet” and artistic collaborator on the film Darwin’s Nightmare, <\/em>which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 2006. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year elsewhere.
\nwww.nickflynn.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Michelle Robinson<\/strong> is the mother of 12-year old identical twin boys and resides in New York City. She studied Journalism at New York University and is planning to attend film school in 2008. Her erotic short story “Mi Destino” is included in the New York Times<\/em> bestseller Caramel Flava.<\/em> In addition to Caramel Flava,<\/em> Michelle is also a contributing author to the anthology collections Chocolate Flava II<\/em> with the story “The Quiet Room, Asian Spice<\/em> with the story “The Flow of Qi” and Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2<\/em> with the story “Hailey’s Orgasmic Splendor.” She has recently completed work on four novels, Color Me Grey, Pleasure Principle, Serial Typical<\/em> and You Created a Monster,<\/em> and is currently working on the screenplay adaptation of “Mi Destino.” Michelle can be reached at robinson_201 at hotmail.com.
\nwww.myspace.com\/justef<\/a><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> bestseller Zane<\/strong> is the author of Addicted, The Sex Chronicles, Getting’ Buck Wild, The Heat Seekers, The Sisters of APF, Shame on It All, Nervous, Skyscraper, Afterburn, Love is Never Painless<\/em> and Dear G-Spot. <\/em>She is the editor of Chocolate Flava <\/em>and Caramel Flava.<\/em> She is the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books\/Simon & Schuster, and lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her family.
\nwww.eroticanoir.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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