Featuring erotic stories by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, Mary Gaitskill, Steve Almond, Nelson George, and Karl Iagnemma. Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley details a beautiful erotic interlude in an otherwise sordid real estate deal; Mary Gaitskill celebrates the unexpected ardor of one middle-aged couple; Steve Almond reminisces about the best one-man/three-girl Ecstasy party ever; Nelson George recounts the erotic escapades that befall a young man who accompanies a celebrity athlete when he picks up a gaggle of girls; and Carol Queen explores the joys of making love with summer fruit. Included in this collection: Slippy for President by Steve Almond View from the Fourteenth Floor by Greta Christina The Ugly Cock Dance by Mary Gaitskill My Puritan Reader by Bert Hart Bottle by Martha Garvey Experimental Writer Gets Sucked Off in a Field by Robert Gluck Sour Berry Juice by Shu-Huei Henrickson It’s Never Too Late in New York by Nelson George Brontitis by Maria Dahvana Headley Robots of the World, Unite! by Karl Iagnemma The Bounty of Summer by Carol Queen Charles Sykes’ Spirit of Ecstasy by P.S. Haven Surviving Darwin by Alicia Gifford Previously published as Best American Erotica 2005.
