Stirring up a Storm: Tales of the Sensual, the Sexual, and the Erotic

Good erotica, like bad pornography, is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. The stories in Stirring up a Storm aren’t just good; they’re unzip-your-jeans excellent. Editor Marilyn Jaye Lewis has selected tales that are by degrees sexy, funny, romantic, suggestive, explicit, occasionally kinky and—oh, yeah—written by women. This ain’t no male-fantasy masturbation rag; this is literature with a libido. Authors include Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Dorothy Allison, Kim Addonizio and a host of lesser-known but certainly talented mistresses of the not-so-gentle art of writing good sex. Perhaps most interesting is the sure touch with subjects that could set off the weird-meter—but even a confirmed vanilla-lover will find something to suit her taste.