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hiddenmuseThat's what I did last night. After enduring a visit to the dentist - oh joy of joys, I went to an LGBT Banned Books event at a local indie bookstore.
There is nothing more fun than hearing someone read from Sapphire's American Dreams and Alice Walker's The Color Purple in such a way that you'd almost want to make her your own personal Schererazade (I know, I probably totally wrecked the spelling of it ... sorry!); listening to a transman reading from Holly Hughes' Clit Notes - even he acknowledged the irony of it, yet still did an incredible reading (and I told him so); or hearing someone read sections from The New Joy of Gay Sex that had members of the audience nodding their heads in agreement or laughing at the memory of their past mistakes.
After that, I wanted to gather a group of friends and strangers together to read stories to them from my favorite erotica anthologies. "Breathing Lessons" by Eleanor Brown from Zaftig, anything by M. Christian, Zane, Carol Queen, Rachel Kramer Bussel (hope I spelled that right!), Susannah Indigo, Nicholson Baker or Kate Dominic.
It's just fun to read that stuff aloud - to myself. I'd love to get a chance to share it with a friend or lover at some point. :)
There is nothing more fun than hearing someone read from Sapphire's American Dreams and Alice Walker's The Color Purple in such a way that you'd almost want to make her your own personal Schererazade (I know, I probably totally wrecked the spelling of it ... sorry!); listening to a transman reading from Holly Hughes' Clit Notes - even he acknowledged the irony of it, yet still did an incredible reading (and I told him so); or hearing someone read sections from The New Joy of Gay Sex that had members of the audience nodding their heads in agreement or laughing at the memory of their past mistakes.
After that, I wanted to gather a group of friends and strangers together to read stories to them from my favorite erotica anthologies. "Breathing Lessons" by Eleanor Brown from Zaftig, anything by M. Christian, Zane, Carol Queen, Rachel Kramer Bussel (hope I spelled that right!), Susannah Indigo, Nicholson Baker or Kate Dominic.
It's just fun to read that stuff aloud - to myself. I'd love to get a chance to share it with a friend or lover at some point. :)
