The Best American Erotica 2003

Introduction

Happy anniversary, everyone. This is the tenth year of The Best American Erotica, and in the last decade we've enjoyed some of the most memorable erotica ever published in the English language. We've been on best-seller lists and shit lists; we've been hailed both as the decline of fine literature and as the end of hallowed traditions in mediocre smut. We are the only "Best of..." series, in any genre, to stay in print for all ten years we've published.

I suppose our dirtiest secret is that we've had an awful lot of fun.

This year, I decided to interview as many of our BAE author alumni as I could find, and discover a little about their writing lives and history -- as well as their sexual opinions. Out of the 257 authors I've published in BAE, I spoke to 137, and researched another 50 or so from previous interview material, Web sites, and editors' notes. Four authors had passed away since we began the series, much to my sorrow. The ones I didn't get my hands on, as they say, "remain at large." If anyone is offended that they don't see themselves included, I can only say -- we understand you'r ... read full excerpt from The Best American Erotica 2003 ebook