DIVA Magazine (U.K.) July 2002 | ||
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Note: I received a copy of this review from my publisher, Cleis Press. I couldn't
find an online copy of the review, so I have retyped here the part about my book.
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Good in BedKathleen Kiirik Bryson reviews a bevy of new books Nymphomania: A History, by Carol Groneman (Fusion Press, UK, ₤9.99) Good Girls Do: Sex Chronicles of a Shameless Generation, by Simona Chlose (ECW Press, distributed by Turnaround) The Sexual Life of Catherine M., by Catherine Millet (Serpent's Tail, ₤12.00) How I Adore You: Erotic Stories by Mark Pritchard (Cleis Press, distributed by Turnaround) Hot & Bothered 3: Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire, edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky (Arsenal Pulp Press) [reviews of the first three books, and then:] I found the intimacy and twistedness that I craved in How I Adore You, which I have to say surprised me. Let me just be candid for a moment: I read, edit and occasionally write erotic fiction as an enjoyable day job, with the result that in my leisure time I much prefer literary stuff or, more nerdily, anthropological non-fiction popular science. Really. So for an erotic short-story compilation to hold my attention, let alone bowl me over with its characters and hot stories, it has to be something special, and I genuinely believe that Mark Pritchard’s collection of short stories is that unique. A San Francisco-based bi-guy, Pritchard has written a series of stories that not only include every sexual orientation you could shake a riding crop at, but also contain prose that picks away at something essentially human and gritty and sexy until it bleeds and you're so glad it does. Amazing writing. Delicious sex. May offend some readers with the unapologetic bisexuality of both its male and female characters. Who cares? Now, there are a lot of women out there who feel differently, who want their wank fiction to have less on character, less polymorphous perversity and more quick lezzie bang-bang, and that's fine. ... last
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