The Best American Erotica, 1994 Book

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

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 Mrid: 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. (Nov.)