Best Sex Writing 2008 video footage, Q&As and Jezebel post

My friend Jason Boog over at his excellent writing/publishing-themed website The Publishing Spot did a 5-part Q&A with me (last one’s up tomorrow) and also has some footage from the Best Sex Writing 2008 party:

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Also, in separate but related news, Jezebel (a multiple Bloggie nominee!)has a great post up by Jessica Grose, with lots of debate in the comments, called “Shiksa Studies: Why Don’t Jewish Women Get Any Pop Cultural Love?” and it includes an excerpt from my interview with Rachel Shukert about Jewish girls and blowjobs.

From Jezebel:

Radar is declaring, in its typically amusing and tongue-in-cheek fashion, that this year’s hottest accessory for shiksas is a Jewish husband. You know what? Tongue-in-cheek or not, I’m over Jewish dudes getting all the love. You never hear about Jewish women being the hottest, well, anything; while Woody Allen is off bagging WASP goddesses Mariel Hemmingway and Diane Keaton in Manhattan, cultural stereotypes of female Jews show us to be fleshy, frumpy, sexless overbearing mothers with big noses and unruly hair. Rachel Shukert, the far from frumpy sex writer, thinks that “Jewish men have really had a large part in disseminating those [negative] stereotypes” of Jewish women.

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Interview with Funky Brown Chick and Reading/PARTY!

Very exciting update! – the reading/book party made it into the New York Times‘s UrbanEye newsletter!

Cover all your literary erotica bases on Tuesday night (and actually leave the house to do it). At the old-school East Village haunt the Rapture Café, Rachel Kramer Bussel celebrates the publication of her new anthology, “Best Sex Writing 2008.” Several contributors — including former Columbia sex columnist Miriam Datskovsky — will read their work.

Thanks also to FreeNYC and Going.com and The L Magazine Time Out New York (and TONY blog) for listing the reading!

Here’s the first of a few interviews I’ve done about Best Sex Writing 2008, with Funky Brown Chick. We’re also being interviewed tomorrow for a new website and for the Bat Segundo podcast.

So please don’t miss our reading and party, where there will also be cupcakes like the ones pictured below (those are peanut butter chocolate, there will also be strawberry cream cheese ones, free!):

BEST SEX WRITING 2008 BOOK RELEASE PARTY AND READING!
Tuesday, January 22, 7 pm – 9 pm
At Rapture Cafe, 200 Avenue A (between 12th and 13th), NYC, FREE
Featuring editor Rachel Kramer Bussel, Rachel Shukert (“Big Mouth Strikes Again: An Oral Report”), Lux Nightmare (“The Pink Ghetto”), Miriam Datskovsky (“Absolut Nude”), and Liz Langley (“Sex and the Single Septuagenarian”). Free cupcakes from Kumquat Cupcakery will be served, and books will be available for sale and signing