Michael Hemmingson

Maxim Jakubowski

In the tradition of Carroll & Graf's The Mammoth Book of Erotica, The Mammoth Book of International Erotica, The Mammoth Book of New Erotica, and The Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica - which together have sold more than 400,000 copies - comes this provocative new volume in a hot-selling series, featuring such top writers of erotic fiction as Robert Coover, O'Neil De Noux, Mark Ramsden, Gene Santagarda, and Lucy Taylor along with the editors of this sizzling collection, Michael Hemmingson and Maxim Jakubowski. Written especially for this anthology, these piquant tales do not only titillate. As novellas, they also expatiate, involving the reader in the complications of plot as well as of lust and exploring the emotional interiors of their characters as well as in their sensual intrigues and sexual gymnastics. From Michael Perkins's "Night Moves" to William Vollmann's "De Sade's Last Stand," from Josephine Jarmaine's "The Doll" to M. Christian's "Speaking Parts" - whether disturbingly autobiographical or wildly fantastical, meditative or action-packed - these tales will arouse, fascinate, astound, and delight in their racy variety.

The Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels

Mary Anne Mohanraj

"The Classics Professor" is a beautiful woman at a prestigious New York university whose cold professional facade masks a powerful eroticism. With a crisscrossing narrative and endless plot scenarios, which can play out differently in each reading, this is the ideal book for the modern-day erotica reader in search of adventure.

Create Your Own Erotic Fantasy

The Classics Professor

This will be the first book-length critical study of Gordon Lish's work as a writer and his influence on contemporary fiction as both an editor and writer. Indeed, there is little scholarly work on Lish, which seems to be wanting, as he is often cited in academic articles about some of the major writers he helped shapeâ€”Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Harold Brodkey, Nancy Leamann, and many others. This study examines his novels and short stories, how they relate to his teaching and the philosophies of writing that he propounded as an editor and teacher, and where these works are placed in the cannon of contemporary American fiction. This study also closely examines some of the major writers whose careers he helped to shape, as well as some of the "lesser" writers under his thumb who have carved a special niche for themselves in today's literary landscape. Overall, this study places Gordon Lish as an important, and inevitable, influence on later twentieth-century American fiction and the minimalist movement that is still going strong.

Life and Times of Captain Fiction

Gordon Lish and His Influence on Twentieth-Century American Literature

Giselle Renarde

Elizabeth Coldwell

Heather Towne

Kyoko Church

Ashley Hind

Annabeth Leong

Tabitha Rayne

Flora Dain

Maxine Marsh

Medea Mor

Rose De Fer

'Forever Bound' is special longer Mischief anthology that explores bondage, domination and submission in sixteen intensely erotic short stories. 'Forever Bound' features erotica from Kyoko Church, Heather Towne, Medea Mor, Maxine Marsh, Rose de Fer, Kathleen Tudor and many more.

Forever Bound

The Rose of Heaven is a tale of the abuse of and desire for power, and the many ways we human beings inflict violence on our fellow creatures. The year is 1910. In a devout Catholic community in California, a young girl, Rosina, exhibits a tendency for miracles--the ability to heal and bring the dead back to life. Some worship and adore her. Others fear and wish to kill her. And others, like a priest sent by the Vatican and a few opportunistic government operatives, harbor dreadful designs on her phenomenal powers. . . The witness to these extraordinary events during the years that follow--the narrator of this story--is Rosina's cousin, Pablo. But when Pablo is separated from Rosina and joins the Canadian Army to fight in World War I, he knows he must stay alive and reunite with his cousin . . .and save her from the men who crave to profit from her gift and covet her Divine Touch.

The Rose of Heaven

Judas Payne was the devil’s spawn, a product of rape, a half-white, half-Indian outcast who was loved only by his pretty half-sister, Evangeline. When the Reverend Payne finds the two naked in the barn, he takes out one of Judas’s eyes, and Judas chops off one of the Reverend’s arms and then runs for his life. He meets up with a number of colorful characters out there in the weird wild west, from a white slave-trading ex-Confederate colonel to a gun-slinging assassin who quotes scripture as he slaughters his targets. Meanwhile, unknown to Judas, Evangeline Payne has been sold to a brothel and forced to engage in the most vile sexual acts with any man who pays for it.... In the vein of Joe R. Lansdale’s weird westerns, this dark novel is Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name meets Deadwood meets Cowboys and Aliens. Jump on your horse and take a ride....

A Weird Western

Judas Payne

In this comprehensive bibliography, Michael Hemmingson has assembled a list of all editions of Vollmann's books in every language, as well as every short story, every essay, book reviews, and the author's investigative journalism.

An Annotated Bibliography

William T. Vollmann

Time travel and brothels; unusual visitors from different eras, dimensions, and realities; human zoos maintained by curious aliens who like to watch; private eyes who are zombies; leafy-green literary collaborators; moral steampunk issues; a dreamer at the edge of the solar system; an astronaut who's gone insane; and the conspiracies of chrono-assassins--just a few of the fantastic themes in these 16 stories from Michael Hemmingson's first collection of speculative fiction: page-turners, every one of them!

The Chronotope and Other Speculative Fictions

Rose de Fer

‘Forever Bound’ is special longer Mischief anthology that explores bondage, domination and submission in sixteen intensely erotic short stories. ‘Forever Bound’ features erotica from Kyoko Church, Heather Towne, Medea Mor, Maxine Marsh, Rose de Fer, Kathleen Tudor and many more.

Tim Pratt

The Urban Bizarre brings together tales of the city from the best new science fiction writers, pornographers, and zinesters -- stories too weird, too dark, and just plain too bizarre to be published elsewhere. Edited by the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author Nick Mamatas, The Urban Bizarre guarantees you'll never look at a cab driver or street corner in quite the same way again.

The Urban Bizarre

Swinging couples video-tape their moments of lust and sin and distribute it online for sale and profit. What happens when amateurs head to San Fernando Valley (aka Porn Valley) to become professional pornographers is revealed in these pages for your education, elucidation, and enticement. An Olympia Press reprint of a modern erotic classic!

The Amateurs

Zona Norte: The Post-Structural Body of Erotic Dancers and Sex Workers in Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles: An Auto/ethnography of Desire and Addiction started out as an ethnographic study of prostitution on both sides of the U.S./Mexican border and, as cultural anthropologist Michael Hemmingson explains, turned inward as a study of the self, or what is referred to as “auto/ethnography” in today’s lexicon of qualitative research. The author studies himself within the culture of the Other –- he examines his feelings, memories, and reactions as he conducts his participant observations and interviews in the field, questioning why he chose to research erotic and exotic dancers, strippers, hookers, and various sex workers on both sides of an international border, revealing how the subjects are alike, and how they are different, and how they survive in their worlds. Auto/ethnography is one of the fastest growing and popular sub-fields in sociology, anthropology, and communications today. Books and anthologies are widely published, special journal issues appear each year on the subject, and there are an increasing number of dissertations in all fields of qualitative research cropping up from universities in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. Zona Norte is the latest contribution to this vibrant new approach to living the ethnographic life, as both a scholar and autobiographer.

The Post-Structural Body of Erotic Dancers and Sex Workers in Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles

ZONA NORTE

Talking bugs, electricity, the founding of empires, hobos, Nazis, whores, violence, drugs, murder, secret cabals, Heaven, Hell—William T. Vollmann is a writer of enormous novels that are stuffed with entire worlds of creation and destruction. This first ever book-length critical study traces his career to date with chapters devoted to each of his novels, as well as his short stories and major nonfiction. Vollmann is a writer of obsessions, and this study concentrates on three of them—freedom, redemption, and prostitution—while arguing that the author that dwells on them is worthy of being called one of our greatest living American writers. Also included are seven interviews spanning the years 1991–2007 that reinforce the persistence of Vollmann’s attraction to these themes.

A Critical Study and Seven Interviews

CHARLES BUKOWSKI & RAYMOND CARVER Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver were credited as the fathers of the "Dirty Realism" genre in the 1980s--branching out from minimalism, the stripping of fiction down to the least amount of words and a concentration on the subject's view of the object. The characters are usually run-of-the-mill, every day people--the lower and middle class worker, the unemployed, the alcoholic, the beaten-down-by-life. In this experimental monograph (in the vein of D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Contemporary American Fiction), avante/pop literary critic Michael Hemmingson examines these dirty works of Bukowski and Carver through the lens of late twentieth-century American culture and the sociological observation of the self, questioning the authority of the "I" in fiction and poetry and its relation to the eye's gaze of the words on a page. Hemmingson offers close readings of selected texts, deconstructing iconic works by Bukowski and Carver to point out the elements of dirty realism and mastery of the language of the common folk, proving that these two writers are an institution in American literature. MICHAEL HEMMINGSON has written over 25 books of literary, western, SF, horror, noir, autobiography, erotica, narrative journalism, gonzo journalism, cultural anthropology, critical theory, critifiction, and ethnography. He lives and works in Southern California.

Michael Hemmingson

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