Michael Perkins (poet)
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| - | Michael Perkins has been at the forefront of serious American erotic writing for three decades. His early erotic novels issued by the legendary avant-garde California publisher Essex House won praise from Samual R. Delaney, Thomas S. Disch, Philip Jose Farmer, Norman Spinrad, Harlon Ellison, Marilyn Hacker and many others. His classic 1968 novel Evil Companions was reprinted in 1992 by Rhinoceros with an introduction by Samuel R. Delaney. His novel, Dark Matter (Titan), appeared in the UK in 1996. He has published a dozen novels, including the million-copy bestselling novelization of Deep Throat. | + | Michael Perkins has been at the forefront of serious American erotic writing for three decades. His early erotic novels issued by the legendary avant-garde California publisher [[Essex House]] won praise from Samual R. Delaney, Thomas S. Disch, Philip Jose Farmer, Norman Spinrad, Harlon Ellison, Marilyn Hacker and many others. His classic 1968 novel ''[[Evil Companions]]'' was reprinted in 1992 by Rhinoceros with an introduction by Samuel R. Delaney. His novel, Dark Matter (Titan), appeared in the UK in 1996. He has published a dozen novels, including the million-copy bestselling [[novelization]] of ''[[Deep Throat]]''. |
| Michael Perkins is recognized as the world's leading expert on modern erotic literature. His weekly book reviews in Screw have been influential in establishing erotic writing as a valid literary genre. Many were collected in The Good Parts (Richard Kasak Books, 1994). His groundbreaking critical survey, The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature, first published by William Morrow in 1976, is available in paperback from Rhinoceros. As a writer/editor he has been associated with all the leading erotic publishers: Maurice Girodias, Barney Rossett, Al Goldstein, Richard Kasak. He is the editor of several anthologies of erotic writing, including Coming Up: The World's Best Erotic Writing (1996). His work appears in The Mammoth Book of Erotica and The Mammoth Book of International Erotica, as well as in The Nation, Paper, American Book Review, Gauntlet, Mother Jones, High Times, The Notre Dame Review, Spectator, and Masquerade Erotic Journal. | Michael Perkins is recognized as the world's leading expert on modern erotic literature. His weekly book reviews in Screw have been influential in establishing erotic writing as a valid literary genre. Many were collected in The Good Parts (Richard Kasak Books, 1994). His groundbreaking critical survey, The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature, first published by William Morrow in 1976, is available in paperback from Rhinoceros. As a writer/editor he has been associated with all the leading erotic publishers: Maurice Girodias, Barney Rossett, Al Goldstein, Richard Kasak. He is the editor of several anthologies of erotic writing, including Coming Up: The World's Best Erotic Writing (1996). His work appears in The Mammoth Book of Erotica and The Mammoth Book of International Erotica, as well as in The Nation, Paper, American Book Review, Gauntlet, Mother Jones, High Times, The Notre Dame Review, Spectator, and Masquerade Erotic Journal. | ||
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Michael Perkins has been at the forefront of serious American erotic writing for three decades. His early erotic novels issued by the legendary avant-garde California publisher Essex House won praise from Samual R. Delaney, Thomas S. Disch, Philip Jose Farmer, Norman Spinrad, Harlon Ellison, Marilyn Hacker and many others. His classic 1968 novel Evil Companions was reprinted in 1992 by Rhinoceros with an introduction by Samuel R. Delaney. His novel, Dark Matter (Titan), appeared in the UK in 1996. He has published a dozen novels, including the million-copy bestselling novelization of Deep Throat.
Michael Perkins is recognized as the world's leading expert on modern erotic literature. His weekly book reviews in Screw have been influential in establishing erotic writing as a valid literary genre. Many were collected in The Good Parts (Richard Kasak Books, 1994). His groundbreaking critical survey, The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature, first published by William Morrow in 1976, is available in paperback from Rhinoceros. As a writer/editor he has been associated with all the leading erotic publishers: Maurice Girodias, Barney Rossett, Al Goldstein, Richard Kasak. He is the editor of several anthologies of erotic writing, including Coming Up: The World's Best Erotic Writing (1996). His work appears in The Mammoth Book of Erotica and The Mammoth Book of International Erotica, as well as in The Nation, Paper, American Book Review, Gauntlet, Mother Jones, High Times, The Notre Dame Review, Spectator, and Masquerade Erotic Journal.
Winner of London's Erotic Oscar for Writer of the Year 2002, he has lectured on erotic writing at San Francisco's Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, William and Mary College, and at various universities in the State University of New York system. In 1998, he participated in a six-part BBC TV documentary on the history of sexuality in the 20th Century. He is a member of The Authors Guild, The National Book Critics Circle, Potes & Writers, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Museum of Sex in New York.
