The Burning Pen cover

The Burning Pen

Sex Writers on Sex Writing

edited by M. Christian
Alyson Publications, 2001

An Essay and Short Story by Jack Fritscher

Porno, Ergo Sum: The Incredible Lightness of Being Male” and
Wild Blue Yonder

The Burning Pen
Table of Contents:

  • Introduction “Show and Tell” M. Christian
  • Leslea Newman -“Smut Writer” “Eggs McMenopause”
  • Felice Picano – “Going Too Far” “Expertise”
  • Carol Queen – “What Do Women Want? We Want to be Big Slutty Fags, Among Other Things” and “After the Light Changed”
  • Scott Brassart – “From Nowhere to Here” “Onions and Green Pepper”
  • Celia Tan – “All in My Head” “Telepaths Don’t Need Safewords”
  • Jack Fritscher – “Porno, Ergo Sum: The Incredible Lightness of Being Male” and “Wild Blue Yonder
  • Laura Antoniou – “My Writing Life, or Everything Old Is New Again” “The First Time”
  • Lucy Taylor – “Screaming Underwater” “In Heat”
  • Patrick Califia-Rice – “An Insistent and Indelicate Muse” “The Code, Chapter 1: You’re a Goddamn Masochist”
  • R.J. March – “What Comes of Wanting, or , Why I Write What I Write” “Tension”
  • Shar Rednour – “Shar’s Thoughts” and “Tina and Gin”
  • Simon Sheppard – “Mondo Pomo Porno” and “My Possession”
  • Thomas S. Roche – “The Smile of the Fool” and “Broken and Entered”
  • M. Christian – “Junkie” and “Counting”
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