For this special millennium edition, Susie Bright, our nation's trustworthy and tantalizing guide into the world of sexual fantasy and freedom, has gathered the best erotic writing of the year to produce a new, sizzling volume. In this collection we find human sexuality in all its diversity; pleasure and desire in all its forms. This doublelength, year 2000 edition offers a glimpse of what sex in the new millennium might be, a time when voices from the sexual underground will be heard and our ideas of perfection will be redefined. This most recent installment in the annual bestselling series includes the year's most provocative literature, guaranteed to have something for everyone.

A selection of the year's best erotic fiction includes twenty-two explicit selections gathered from books and magazines, exploring a wide spectrum of sensual experiences, fantasies, and desires

The best erotic fiction writings published last year in magazines, journals, and short story collections is presented in an anthology that covers the totality of human sexuality and includes cutting-edge works by Jane Smiley, Francesca Lia Block, Maggie Estep, and other distinguished writers. Original. 40,000 first printing.

A sensual new anthology of erotic short fiction presents steamy new stories from Celia Tan, Mary Gaitskill, Jack Murhigham, AM Homes, and other popular authors. Original. 50,000 first printing.

A selection of the year's best erotic fiction includes twenty-two explicit selections gathered from books and magazines, exploring a wide spectrum of sensual experiences, fantasies, and desires.

Special 10th Anniversary Edition More Stories * More Sex * Author Interviews * Readers' Poll Results There's a party going on in here. Please come. Lick the icing on this cake: from the raunchy to the sensual, the 10th anniversary edition of The Best American Erotica includes the most esteemed and lascivious writers at work today. Dorothy Allison explores the wonderful, mysterious abilities of the human hand, Chuck Palahniuk opens the door on a carnal meeting in a church bathroom, Susanna Kaysen takes us inside that sensual moment before two lovers touch for the first time, and Zane's corporate tigress plays mind games that make other office shenanigans look like mere games of Candyland. In candid Q&A's the authors reveal that they are great-grandfathers, prostitutes with Ivy League diplomas, and former lunatic asylum attendants. Here, too, are the results of the readers' survey. Straight, bisexual, or gay; dominant or submissive; kinky or just curious, you're sure to be turned on by the steamiest Best American Erotica ever. * CONTRIBUTORS * Martha Miller, Chuck Palahniuk, Susan St. Aubin, Mel Smith, Greta Christina, James Williams, Robert Irwin, Susan Volchok, Myriam Gurba, Vaginal Davis, Bertice Berry, Dorothy Allison, Susanna Kaysen, Jack Fritscher, Lisa Wolfe, Zane, Scott, Jill Soloway, Tennessee Jones, Alison L. Smith, Paula Bomer, Dagoberto Gilb, Tsaurah Litzky, Aaron Travis, Nicholson Baker, Rose White and Eric Albert, Ivy Topiary, William Harrison