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Books by Carol Taylor
Wanderlust: Erotic Travel Tales /
Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction /
Brown
Sugar 2:Great One
Night Stands
Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract /
Brown Sugar 4 /
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Brown
Sugar 2
Great One
Night Stands
A Collection of Erotic
Black Fiction
Edited by Carol Taylor A literary anthology with a seductive
difference, the best selling Brown Sugar was widely
acclaimed for its honest, taboo and stereotype-defying portrayal
of black love and sexuality. Hailed by essence as
"audaciously refreshing, insightful and provocative"
and praised by Honey Magazine as "particularly
intelligent, varied and sexy," this distinguished erotic
anthology won the 2001 Gold Pen Award for Best Short Story
Collection and clinched the #2 spot on the Los Angeles Times
bestseller list. As the book she brilliantly conceived sizzled
its way to commercial and literary success editor, Carol Taylor,
did not rest on her laurels, instead she got to work on the next
collection enlisting even more of today's hottest black writers.
That hotly-anticipated follow-up is
Brown
Sugar 2:
Great One
Night Stands (Washington Square Press
Trade Paperback Original; Publication Date: January 1, 2003;
ISBN: 0-7434-4244-X; Price $14.00). In Brown Sugar 2
Taylor brings together eighteen never-before-published stories
exploring a striking array of sexual experiences centered on a
single encounter -- the one-night stand. As Taylor says in her
compelling and insightful introduction: "Brown Sugar became
a bestseller because the stories were not just about sex; they
were sexy stories about black life in all its myriad forms. That
is the beauty of being black, our diversity. And though we do
not know it, our diversity is also our greatest strength."
Brown
Sugar 2 features renowned black
authors writing outside of the genre they are known for, but in
their own unique style, creating sexually real and emotionally
vulnerable, women and men. Whether born in the North, South,
East, or West, or the Caribbean, whether living uptown, downtown
or in small town middle America; whether a college freshmen or a
sexy senior citizen; the collection's eclectic characters share
a common bond: the yearning for a purely passionate connection
for just that moment. "A one-night stand is not about the
unremarkable, the practical or the mundane," Taylor states.
"It is about the fantasy of what could be though we know it
will not be and the beauty of not caring. Either way, it feels
good to be bad. That's probably why we do it."
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Brown
Sugar 2
Great One
Night Stands
A Collection of Erotic
Black Fiction
Edited by Carol Taylor
| Acknowledgments |
ix |
| Introduction |
xi |
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| Art, for Fuck's Sake |
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| Leone Ross |
1 |
| If He Only Knew |
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| Preston L. Allen |
23 |
| Transplanted |
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| Tananarive Due |
44 |
| Sit |
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| Bernice L. McFadden |
60 |
| The Most Beautiful Thing |
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| Timothy B. McCann |
88 |
| Lula Mae |
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| Shay Youngblood |
108 |
| Mr. Good Lay |
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| Zane |
119 |
| Next Time Take Flesh |
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| Jenoyne Adams |
149 |
| Letters & Remembrances |
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| Kathleen E. Morris |
165 |
| It's Never Too late in New York |
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| Nelson George |
178 |
| Counting Days |
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| Shawne Johnson |
203 |
| Ella by Starlight |
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| Willie Perdomo |
215 |
| Passing Through |
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| Sandra Kitt |
237 |
| Simply Beautiful |
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| Michael A. Gonzales |
258 |
| Zoe |
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| Nicole Bailey-Williams |
276 |
| Prelude to . . . |
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| Reginald Harris |
299 |
| Don't Stop 2 You Get Enuf |
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| Yolanda Joe |
321 |
| Mr. Man |
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| Rebecca Carroll |
341 |
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| Contributors |
357 |
| About the Editor |
367 |
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Carol
Taylor is an award-winning book editor and writer. She is an
expert on erotica and black fiction who speaks candidly, openly
and honestly about love and relationships, often unabashedly
describing some of her own sexual discoveries to teach by
experience. She relates lessons learned from lovers who have
surprised her with their sensitivity, quirks and stamina; and
her arduous 33-year search for an orgasm during lovemaking.
Whether it is to give insight into those perplexing relationship
questions or simply to help get you both in the mood, Carol’s
experiences are both illuminating and insightful. Her stories
and advice from her trusty friends crosses ethnic, sexual, and
cultural barriers. So, no matter the problem she’ll have an
answer for you.
A
former book editor for Random House, Carol has been featured in Marie
Claire, Essence, Honey, Ebony, Dwell,
Black Enterprise, BET, The Boston Globe, The Daily News, The
Chicago Sun-Times and Publisher's Weekly among many
other publications. She is also the editor of Brown Sugar-a
spicy collection of original black and interracial erotica
penned by the best and brightest in the black literary world-an
anthology that will be a mainstay of bedside tables everywhere.
Featuring titillating tales of love, lust and longing, it is a
must-have for every lover, or lover of fiction. Brown Sugar was
published January 2001. She is a contributing writer to
Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books. She has also
appeared on BET Tonight with Ed Gordon and ABC
Eyewitness News.
Carol
has been in book publishing for over 10 years and has worked
with many of today’s top black writers. She speaks on panels
and leads workshops on getting what you want from a relationship
and on erotica. She is currently at work on Brown Sugar
3 and 4, as well as a collection of her own short stories.
She lives in New York City |
Source:
Brown
Sugar 2: Great One
Night Stands
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updated 9 April 2008 |
