The Burning Pen: Sex Writers on Sex Writing is an anthology edited by M. Christian and published by Alyson Publications in 2001. It includes an essay and a short story by Jack Fritscher, “Porno, Ergo Sum: The Incredible Lightness of Being Male” and “Wild Blue Yonder.”

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”