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Susie Bright is Audible's Editor @ Large, acquiring and producing new audiobooks from favorites on her own bookshelf.

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Susie Bright

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BOOKS

Author, The Erotic Screen: Volume 2, Bright Stuff, Fall 2012

Co-Author with Aretha Bright, Mother/Daughter Sex Advice, Bright Stuff, 2012

Author, The Erotic Screen: Volume 1, Bright Stuff, 2011

Author, Big Sex Little Death, Seal Press, 2011

Author, Love and Lust: A Sex Journal, Chronicle Books, 2010

Author, I Dare You Cards, Chronicle Books, 2010

Editor, Bitten, Chronicle Books, 2009

Editor, X: The Erotic Treasury, Chronicle Books, 2008

Series Editor, Best American Erotica, Simon and Schuster, 1993 - 2008

Editor, Three Kinds of Asking For It, Eric Albert, Greta Christina, and Jill Soloway, edited by Susie Bright,  Simon and Schuster, 2005

Editor, Three the Hard Way, by William Harrison, Greg Boyd, and Tsaurah Litzky, edited  by Susie Bright, Simon and Schuster, 2004

Mommy's Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Pornography, and Cherry Pie, Thunders Mouth, 2004

How To Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing, and Publishing Erotica,  Simon and Schuster, 2002

Full Exposure: Opening  Up to Sex and Creativity, HarperSanFrancisco,  1999

The Sexual State of the Union
, Simon & Schuster, 1997,  1998

Author and Co-Editor, Nothing But the Girl: the Blatant Lesbian Image,  Cassell, 1996

SexWise, Cleis Press, 1995

Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex Reader, Cleis Press , 1992

Editor, Herotica III,  Penguin USA, 1994

Editor, Herotica II,  Penguin USA, 1992

Susie Sexpert'€™s Lesbian Sex World,  Cleis Press, 1990

Editor, Herotica, Down There Press, 1988

 

BLOG

Susie Bright's Journal, 2004 - present

The Bright Stuff, 2012 - present

 

AUDIO

Editor at Large, Audible.com 2012-

Executive Producer and Host,  In Bed with Susie Bright, on Audible.com, 2000-

Executive Producer, All Titles by Susie Bright, on Audible.com, 2000-

Author and Adaptation, Full Exposure,  Produced by HarperAudio, 1999

Contributing Author and Perfomer, Food, Sex and Relationships, with Harriet Lerner and Mollie Katzen, produced by Worley Management and Sounds True, 1997

Contributing Author and Perfomer, Cyborgasm, produced by Lisa Palac and Ron Gommpertz, Heydey/Time Warner, 1994.

Contributing Author and Perfomer, The Edge of the Bed, produced by Lisa Palac, Heydey/Time Warner,1995.

Editor and Performer, Herotica,  produced by Passion Press, 1995

Editor, Herotica 2,  produced by Passion Press, 1995

Editor, Herotica 3,  produced by Passion Press, 1997

 

TELEVISION, VIDEO, AND FILM

Special Feature Interview, Reissue of "Belle de Jour", (directed by Luis Buñuel) produced by Issa Massu, Criterion Collection, 2011

Featured Guest, 1969, produced by Rob Epstein, broadcast on The History Channel, 2009

Featured Guest, Six Feet Under, produced by HBO, broadcast on HBO, 2006

Featured Guest, Retrosexual: The 80s, produced by VH1, 2004

Featured Guest, Sex in the 20th Century, narrated by Peter Coyote, produced by MPH Entertainment, broadcast on History Channel, April 2001

Featured Guest, A Return to Modesty, produced by Lifetime Television, August 1999

Documentary feature, Susie Bright, Sex Pest, produced by Mike Bluett, directed by Cheryl Farthing, for Channel 4, London, England, November 1998

Script Consultant, Choreographer, and Featured Cameo, Bound, produced by Dino DeLaurentis, and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, 1996.

Co-star, The Celluloid Closet, produced by Telling Pictures and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 1995.

Screenwriter, Let'€™s Talk About Sex, produced by Brandon Chase,  and directed by Lizzie Borden, 1994

Documentary Feature, Reel Sex #8, HBO, Produced by Patty Kaplan, March 1994

Producer and Narrator, All-Girl Action, 1990

Producer and Narrator, How To Read a Dirty Movie, 1990.

Co-star, The Virgin Machine, directed by Monica Treut , W. Germany/US, 1988

 

PERIODICALS & WEB

Editor, Susie Bright'€™s Journal, 2004-

Golden Dukes Annual Judge, Talking Points Memo, 2007-

Syndicated Columnist, Jezebel, 2009

Syndicated Columnist, Alternet, 2007

Syndicated Columnist, Huffington Post, 2006

Columnist, CRAFT, 2006-2009

Columnist, Bust, 2002-2005

Columnist, Playboy, 1999-2000

Columnist, Libida, 2000-2001

Contributing Editor, Salon, 1997-2000

Contributing Editor, San Francisco Review of Books, 1992–1994

Editor, On Our Backs, 1984-€“1991

Contributing Editor, Penthouse Forum, 1987-1989

Frequent contributor: Esquire, New York Times, Elle, Dwell, Playboy, MS., The Realist, UTNE Reader, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Hungry Minds Review, Village Voice, & The Stranger.

 

LEGAL

Co-plaintiff, ACLU v. Gonzales (COPA case), Supreme Court, 2003-2006


Consultant, Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Commissioner of Customs and Revenue and Minister of National Revenue - S.C.B.C. Action No. L020443, Queens Court, Canada,  2003-2004

Plaintiff, Bright v. Los Angeles Unified Sch. Dist. , 18 Cal.3d 450, 1974-1976

 

PERFORMANCE/CLASSES/PUBLIC LECTURES

Sexual State of the Union Address

92nd Street Y, New York
Alfred U., New York
Antioch University, Ohio
University of California at Berkeley
University of Colorado, Boulder
Bryn Mawr College
Carnegie Mellon
California State University at Chico
Florida State University
Gay and Lesbian Community Center, New York
Harvey Milk Democratic Club, San Francisco
Haverford College, Philadelphia
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Humboldt State Univesity
Hunter College, NYC
University of Indiana, Bloomington
University of Wisconsin at Madison
McGill University
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
MIT
Murfreesboro State University, TN
Ohio State
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Northwestern University
University of Pennsylvania
Smith College
Society for the Scientific Study of Sex
Solo Mio Performance Festival, Boston
University of Toronto

 Tucson Public Library 

Tulane University                                                                                   

Vassar College 

Washington State University, Bellingham 

Wayne State University
Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Wesleyan Univerisity
Williams College


Sex Education in the Doctor's Office

University of California, San Francisco

University of California, Berkeley


The Politics of Sexual Representation

Course at University of California at Santa Cruz

The Case of Pornography,  Keynote speaker

UCSB conference on Pornography and Censorship, Santa Barbara

 

Reading, Writing and Rethinking Erotica

Esalen Institute
Omega Institute
New College of California

 

How To Read a Dirty Movie,  film show and lecture

HBO Broadcast
Virginia Tech
Hamburg Gay Film Festival
Berlin Gay Film Festival
Castro Theater, San Francisco
University of California at Santa Cruz
Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley
Nuart Theater, Los Angeles
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Collective for Living Cinema
Dobie Theater, Austin
Roxie Theater, San Francisco
San Francisco State University
Stanford University
Cal Arts Valencia 

 The Victoria Theater

 

All Girl Action, The History of Lesbian Eroticism in Hollywood,  film show & lecture

Castro Theater, San Francisco
University of Washington, Seattle
British Film Institute
Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Holland
Nuart Theater, Los Angeles
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Hallwalls, Buffalo
Chatham College, Pittsburgh
Gay Film Festival, Music Box Theater, Chicago
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Castro Theater, San Francisco

Sex In Public: Erotic Expression, Censorship, and Sexual  Repression, a lecture

American Library Association, San Francisco
Modern Language Association , San Francisco
University of Indiana, Bloomington
Slim's Spoken Word Series, San Francisco
Yale University
University of Arkansas
Cornell University
Wesleyan University
Amherst College,
Harvard University
Brown University
State University of New York, Binghamton
Hunter College, New York

Sex Educators and Erotica, a lecture

Society for the Scientific Study of Sex
Institute for the Study of Human Sexuality

Keynote Speaker, Multi-Topic

BlogHer
San Francisco Public Library
Crown Gallery
University of Kansas at Lawrence
Sacred Elixirs
University of Ohio at Columbus
L.A. Times Book Festival
Romantic Times
Seattle Public Library

 

AWARDS  &  BESTSELLERS

Lamba Literary Award Nominee, Big Sex Little Death, 2012

Gail Rich Award, Santa Cruz, 2002

Lambda Literary Award, Best Art Book of the Year, 1997, for Nothing But the Girl

Firecracker Award, Best Art Book of the Year, 1997, for Nothing But the Girl

Full Exposure, National Bestseller

Best American Erotica, National Bestseller

Sexual State of the Union, National Bestseller

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