
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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