The adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow -- The geography of desire / Robert Boswell -- Harry and Catherine / Frederick Busch -- They whisper / Robert Olen Butler -- The mysteries of Pittsburgh / Michael Chabon -- Player / Don DeLillo -- Billy Bathgate / E. L. Doctorow --The invisible circus / Jennifer Egan -- ARC D'x / Steve Erickson -- Nude men / Amanda Filipacchi -- Family night / Maria Flook -- The mind-body problem / Rebecca Goldstein -- The other side / Mary Gordon -- The mambo kings play songs of love / Oscar Hijuelos -- Daughters of song / Paula Huston -- The blindfold / Siri Hustvedt -- Middle passage / Charles Johnson -- Dance with bruised knees / Lynne McFall -- Going to the sun / James McManus -- Natural tendencies / Joan Mellen -- Katherine / Anchee Min -- The courtyard of dreams / Anna Monardo -- The whiteness of bones / Susanna Moore -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- These same long bones / Gwendolyn M. Parker -- Martin and John / Dale Peck -- The professor of desire / Philip Roth -- Playing with fire / Dani Shapiro -- Touch / Charlotte Watson Sherman -- A thousand acres / Jane Smiley -- The volcano lover / Susan Sontag -- Endless love / Scott Spencer -- Sophie's choice / William Styron -- Museum pieces / Elizabeth Tallent -- The paper anniversary / Joan Wickersham.
Summary:
"This anthology collects about fifty of the best examples of American erotic writing from the last fifty years or so"--P. xiv.
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