Rachel Kramer Bussel

Your New Favorite Frenemy: Valerie Frankel, Author of It's Hard Not to Hate You

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 02.20.2012

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In It's Hard Not to Hate You, Valerie Frankel delivers an often amusing, entertaining, educational and at times gossipy story of her life.

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Why Nigella Lawson's Caramel-Covered Photo Shoot Was Food Porn

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Sploshing, Erica Rivera, Charles Gatewood, Suzanne Vega, Food Porn, Caramel, Food, Stylist, Eroticism, Nigela Lawson, Sexuality, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Food News
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What I've Learned in Four Years of Running My Erotic Reading Series

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: In the Flesh, Erotica, Books, Events, Reading Series, Reading, New York, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Inside DC, Books News
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For the past four years, I've hosted In The Flesh Reading Series, a monthly reading dedicated to erotica and sex and held at a bar that's a former massage parlor called, appropriately, Happy Ending Lounge.

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Amazon.com anti-GLBT "Glitch" Infuriates Web 2.0 Denizens

Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amazon.com, Gore Vidal, GLBT Community, Tristan Taormino, Censorship, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Media News
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"Glitch or not, my erotica books still have no rankings," Rachel Kramer Bussel complained via Twitter, adding the hash tags, #glitchmyass and #amazonfail to drive home her point.

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The Shelf Talker: The War to Settle the Score (and the Future of Book Publishing)

Kevin Smokler | Posted 05.25.2011

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TST was the third question-asker and inquired (plainly, we thought) why publishers act with suspicion and fear towards the very technologies and people that seek to cheerlead for their books.

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The Media's Sexual Irresponsibility

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proof Blog, Sex, Tracy Clark-Flory, Alcohol, New York Times, Morality, Violet Blue, Best Sex Writing 2009, Jim Atkinson, Sexuality, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Media News
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Those of us who write about sex, not to mention all those heathen divorcees and masturbators, get plenty of flak. I'm tired of sex being seen as scandalous, inconsequential, or worse, pointless.

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Best Sex Writing 2009 Interview: Susannah Breslin on Eliot Spitzer and prostitution

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Letters From Johns, Prostitution, Sex Workers, Sex, Susannah Breslin, Letters From Working Girls, Sex Work, Cleis Press, Best Sex Writing 2009, Eliot Spitzer Sex Scandal, Newsweek, Eliot Spitzer, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Style News
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Breslin discusses why men hire sex workers, the media reaction to the Spitzer scandal, and why the personal stories of sex workers and their customers are important.

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