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Susie Bright is the editor of The Best American Erotica series and host of the weekly audio show In Bed with Susie Bright on Audible.com. She has been a columnist for Playboy and Salon, and has been profiled in USA TODAY, Los Angeles Times, Esquire,... Read full bio

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Best American Erotica 1995 will be released on October 01, 2008 in eBook
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The Best American Erotica 1996 will be released on October 01, 2008 in eBook
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Best American Erotica 1995 will be released on October 01, 2008 in eBook
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Susie Bright Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Je ne Regrette Rien Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Reading. Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. Warm, tranquil turquoise water would hit the spot right about now. Q. How would you describe perfect happiness? A. Being reunited with someone you love. Q. Which living person do you most admire? A. My daughter. Learn more about Susie Bright

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Metronews, February 8, 2010
...sweetie's day with a smile. Check out all of the designs at www.kindnotes.com Feeling daring? Susie Bright's I Dare You: 30 Sealed Seductions is a beautiful little box filled with 30 sealed envelopes, each containing a simple dare. cards sealed inside of...
New York Times, January 28, 2010
...plunge-necked silk corset by the Parisian house Cadolle, copies of “X: The Erotic Treasury” by the literary sex-bomb Susie Bright and a mirrored tray with gold-plated handcuffs and a matching half-mask. Vitrines and glass cases throughout the store...
New York Times, January 28, 2010
...plunge-necked silk corset by the Parisian house Cadolle, copies of “X: The Erotic Treasury” by the literary sex-bomb Susie Bright and a mirrored tray with gold-plated handcuffs and a matching half-mask. Vitrines and glass cases throughout the store...
New York Times, January 27, 2010
...plunge-necked silk corset by the Parisian house Cadolle, copies of “X: The Erotic Treasury” by the literary sex-bomb Susie Bright and a mirrored tray with gold-plated handcuffs and a matching half-mask. Vitrines and glass cases throughout the store...
Concordia Link, October 8, 2009
...as so sexually liberated, there?s no sex writing community,? she said. Roberts pointed to writers such as Susie Bright, Violet Blue and Audacia Ray as authors who have raised the profile of erotica and wants to see Montrealers get the same exposure....
PublishersWeekly.com, August 3, 2009
...Books has created lush packaging for its new anthology Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories (Sept.), edited by erotica superstar Susie Bright. Bright's anthology features new stories by predominantly YA author Francesca Lia Block and screenwriter Sera Gamble, who...
Examiner.com, May 30, 2009
...s been roaring his counterculture views since the 1960s. In Praise of Indecency opens with an interview between Susie Bright and Krassner. Bright, without much effort at all, gets Krassner to discuss his thoughts about drug use and his personal sexual...
New York Times, April 18, 2009
...sexual culture, the feminist defense of pornography in Caught Looking, the frank and funny essays by women like Susie Bright and Carol Queen: all of this is easy enough to find. Part of the controversy over Wetlands has been whether it is pornography or...
San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 2009
...coddled on every screen and page. The basket weighs heavier than any of us would like to admit. Susie Bright is the author-editor of 30-plus books, including her latest, 'X: The Erotic Treasury' (Chronicle Books). She blogs at susiebright.com. E-mail her...
Content Agenda, April 17, 2009
...Garland. Then it became obvious that it wasn't just gay-themed books - it was erotica in general. Susie Bright's popular series of erotic anthologies also disappeared. To be clear, the books were still available for purchase; they just didn't show up on...
Examiner.com, April 9, 2009
...far: @sashagrey. And then there's my current porn crush, Stoya (pictured at left): @stoya, another devoted Twitterer. Susie Bright, author and editor, most recently, of X: The Erotic Treasury (Putting the X in Sex) and a couple dozen other sexy books is...
Ariel Gore, December 14, 2009
...You can pre-order Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness right now. Advance praise for Bluebird : Bluebird is the eclectic, funny, and honest chronicle of this empowering feminist quest for bliss. — Bust Magazine Evidence that no one gets...
Ariel Gore, December 14, 2009
...Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness Bluebird is the eclectic, funny, and honest chronicle of this empowering feminist quest for bliss. — Bust Magazine Evidence that no one gets bullied into fake cheerfulness more than American women....
Largehearted Boy, November 14, 2009
...Go "Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories" (52 Books, 52 Weeks) Having edited the Best American Erotica series for years, Susie Bright is an expert on what qualifies as sexy writing. Bitten collects 15 short stories that probe the dark side of sex. All these tales...
cream.fm, November 14, 2009
...Having edited the Best American Erotica series for years, Susie Bright is an expert on what qualifies as sexy writing. Bitten collects 15 short stories that probe the dark side of sex. All these tales are as arousing as they...
cream.fm, November 7, 2009
...Atomic Books and receive 15% off this title. My next book is Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories , edited by Susie Bright. also at Largehearted Boy: 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2009 Edition) 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2008 Edition) 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2007 Edition) 52...
TampaBLAB, September 27, 2009
...huh. reading stuff that susie bright linked to, i came across David Healey’s Let them Eat Prozac. While I find Healey’s writing more than a little confusing — he’s not a good...
Jiz Lee, September 10, 2009
...reading a new book right now, Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories , a collection of erotica short stories edited by Susie Bright . It will be the next review I do for CarnalNation.com; my first was on Visible: A Femmethology . This collection has been fantastic...
RAINCOAST BOOKS, September 8, 2009
...Author, activist, performer, lecturer, audio show host, sex guru, teacher, AND mom, Susie Bright (whose website is NOT entirely safe for work just FYI—it’s about erotica people!) has a guest post today at (un) Death Match (our zombie vs. vampire...
Alexandria, September 2, 2009
...epidemic of cancer among indigenous populations…. The book: Bitten , a book of “dark erotic” short stories, edited by Susie Bright. I got this one, actually autographed by Susie, by entering a contest she had on Facebook for free copies. The...
LUSTY LADY, August 13, 2009
...Reading Series in New York since October 2005. Her writing has been published in over 100 anthologies, including Susie Bright’s X: The Erotic Treasury, Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and Zane’s Purple Panties and the New York Times bestseller...
Jezebel, June 15, 2009
...wrong. In a few minutes, we thought of the following steamy female sex writers : Annie Sprinkle, Anais Nin, Susie Bright, Pauline Reage, Erica Jong , Anne Rice under her pseudonym A.N. Roquelaire, and Rachel Kramer Bussel, whose In the Flesh Reading...
Wikipedia - New pages [en], May 29, 2009
...more sexiness— and pleasure of all kinds— in classic literature than most people would ever dream of.” — Susie Bright , editor of the Best American Erotica series " Murnighan's…fresh, funny voice…will attract devout readers [and] the...
2009: Another Year of the Books, May 17, 2009
...With Mars and Venus Neil Gaiman Port and Cappuccino Sage A Vu Saskia Walker Smut Girl Steve Perry Susie Bright Tess Gerritsen Wendy Wootton Writing the Life Poetic Bookshelf Hal Spacejock Holly Lisle Justine Larbalestier Timothy Hallinan Tags...
LUSTY LADY, April 24, 2009
...forthcoming from Chronicle Books forthcoming from Cleis Press (actually found this one looking up Susie Bright on Amazon) Labels: Adventures in book covers , Bitten , In Praise of Indecency , Paul Krassner , Susie Bright...
LUSTY LADY, April 13, 2009
...Susie Bright rocking her tiara in February 2009 at In The Flesh; photo by Stacie Joy If this isn't a ringing endorsement from the one and only Susie Bright, I...
Susie Bright's Journal, April 13, 2009
...that offend Pentacostal Paranoia? That's a heck of job. When are you going to make this right? Susie Bright...