Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors

by Michael Rowe

Award-winning journalist Michael Rowe interviewed the best and brightest erotic writersboth those well-known for their work in the field and those just starting outand presents the collected wisdom in Writing Below the Belt. In each of these revealing conversations, the personal, the political and the just plain prurient collide and complement one another in fascinating wayswhich should be no surprise, given the fact that each of these writers can be counted among the genre's most talented practitioners.

480 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 1997

About the author

Michael Rowe is an independent international journalist who has lived in Beirut, Havana, Geneva, and Paris.

His work has appeared in the National Post, The Globe & Mail, The United Church Observer and numerous other publications. He has been a finalist for both the Canadian National Magazine Award and the Associated Church Press Award in the United States. The author of several books, including Writing Below the Belt, a critically acclaimed study of censorship, pornography, and popular culture, and the essay collections Looking For Brothers and Other Men's Sons, which won the 2008 Randy Shilts Award for Nonfiction, he has also won the Lambda Literary Award. He is currently a contributing writer to The Advocate and a political blogger for The Huffington Post.

--from the author's website