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Susie Bright
I write about sex and politics every day of the week.
Interests: dressmaking, sexual politics, deep erotic thinking, revolution in our lifetime, family dilemmas, pornography with integrity, and roasted peppers
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Top Five Audiobooks You've Never Heard Of
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In every bestseller list, there's something missing: the undetected genius, the motherlode. Here's our first in a series of "the best audiobooks you've never heard." —Great writing, bravura performances. Check them out and tell us your next nomination! His Own Where, by June Jordan This is a Brooklyn heartbeat, a... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at The Bright List
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Susie Interviews Len Barot, the Lesbian Super-Power of Bold Strokes Books
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Len Barot, the publisher and author/founder of Bold Stroke Books, is probably the most influential powerhouse in lesbian romance publishing since Barbara Grier and Donna McBride of Naiad Press. BSB has over 550 active titles at present, and Len herself has written... forty-two of them! Who is this super-power? It's... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at The Bright List
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Paul Farmer on Audio⎯ Resist the Impoverishment of Aspiration!
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To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation, by Paul Farmer, Jonathan Weigel (editor), and President Bill Clinton (forward) To Repair the World is a collection of calls-to-action Paul Farmer has delivered to medical schools around the country. Farmer's speeches were designed to inspire the next generation... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2013 at The Bright List
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Lisa McKenzie: Capturing Adolescence Like a Photograph
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Stop That Girl, by Elizabeth McKenzie Elizabeth McKenzie has written one of those rare books that seems to capture adolescence like a photograph. Stop that Girl gets it all right; outsized action that rings true, gnarled family relationships that are at once damaging and fortifying, and emotional showdowns both ridiculous... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at The Bright List
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Up and Down California— William Brewer's Cult Classic, on Audio!
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Up and Down California, in 1860-1864, The Journal of William H. Brewer, Foreword by William Bright “Like a trip in a time machine--intimate, vivid, and full of adventure and discoveries.” --Tom Steinstra, San Francisco Chronicle In 1860, William Henry Brewer joined a team in the very first geological survey of... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at The Bright List
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One Woman’s Tub of Cottage Cheese Is Another Woman’s Maxed-Out Master Card.
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Appetites: Why Women Want, by Caroline Knapp “(Knapp) illuminates the ways in which cultural taboos about women who desire create vulnerability to disorders of appetite including food and alcohol addictions, compulsive shopping and promiscuous sex. In this expansive view, ‘one woman’s tub of cottage cheese is another woman’s maxed-out Master... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at The Bright List
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The Original Detective— & Master Thief— Who Inspired Sherlock Holmes
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Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime, by Francis Eugene Vidoq, translated by Edwin Gile It’s hard to believe this hasn’t been on audio before. Get ready for a revelation: Vidocq was an 18th century master thief, who so bedeviled the French police that they eventually begged him to become their... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at The Bright List
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Uncensored History of an Observant “Bad Guy”-- James Carr's Prison Memoir
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BAD: The Autobiography of James Carr, by James Carr James Carr may not have been the world’s most famous criminal, but he wrote one of the most memorable prison memoirs of the Boomer generation. Incarcerated and “working” during the 50s-60s, Carr came up in the Prison system during the time... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at The Bright List
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William Burroughs' Favorite Book—The Original Hobo Narrative
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You Can’t Win, By Jack Black This is the real deal: the original Depression-era train-hopper hobo narrative. It’s so poignant and beautifully written, it never went out of print. Jack Black's clean, uncluttered prose— and complete lack of self pity— make it easy to feel present in the book to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at The Bright List
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Gnosis—The Spiritual Traditions of the West
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Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to Western Inner Traditions, by Richard Smoley and Jay Kinney “The editors of Gnosis magazine present a fascinating primer on Western religious traditions. "Since the early 20th century, seekers in America ‘were seized with a passion for the lore of mystic Asia... Meanwhile, Western traditions seemed... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at The Bright List
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Pursued—A Thriller with a Capital T
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Pursued, by Joel Gomez-Dossi The mysterious disappearances of three sorority girls aren't going to stop our narrator, Jamie, a self-described “twinkish” college student, from looking for love--or just great sex--at the campus party of the year. He doesn't meet anyone at the party, but he starts seeing the police officer... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at The Bright List
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2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners on Audible: the Orphan, a Snow Child, & Anne Frank-- No Justin Beiber!
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Pulitzer Winners The Orphan Master's Son, a novel by Adam Johnson The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, a biography by Tom Reiss Stag's Leap, by Sharon Olds, winner in poetry. This title isn't on audio, but I looked for an audiobook to introduce... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at The Bright List
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Jobie Hughes Leaves Pittacus Lore Behind, for a Man Who's About to Lose It All
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At Dawn, by Jobie Hughes Here’s a little secret: this "debut" novelist has already sold millions of books! With a writing partner, under the pen-name "Pittacus Lore," Jobie Hughes wrote I Am Number Four, a YA science fiction adventure about the last of a race of super-beings who were hidden... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at The Bright List
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A Real-Life Indiana Jones Story—The Search for the Codex Cardona
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The Search for the Codex Cardona, by Arnold L. Bauer “This book is a gripping tale of intrigue, contraband, covert operations, and a bit of conjecture. "...In many ways it is a tale that many Latin American historians might dream of writing, about a chance encounter with a manuscript, a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at The Bright List
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Finding Beauty in Industrialized Japan: 36 Views of Mt. Fuji on Audio
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36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan, by Cathy Davidson After a life-long fascination with Japan, Cathy Davidson went to Osaka to teach English at a women's college. What she saw was industrialized, dingy: ugly. It wasn’t what she'd expected. She had a disastrous first day when... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at The Bright List
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Mermaids— Coming of Age Never Gets Old
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Mermaids, by Patty Dann "This is a really funny book about people trying to find something to hang onto in a world that keeps shifting under their feet. "Patty Dann guides us through the guerilla war between mother and daughter, through the minefields that lie between being a child and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at The Bright List
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The Passion of Tiger Woods—The Shredding Never Stops
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The Passion of Tiger Woods, by Orin Starn When the PGA's superstar crashed his car into a tree and became engulfed in scandal, it seemed as if the world couldn’t wait to rip him to shreds. The clean-cut, post-racial It-Man became a sweating Lothario overnight. The long tail of this... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at The Bright List
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Top Ten Bestselling Audiobooks— The Bright List at Audible
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April 2013, Bright List Audiobook Bestsellers: 1. Why Are You Atheists So Angry? -- 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, by Greta Christina 2. I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated, by Julie... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at The Bright List
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Raymond Chandler's Lesbian Successor? —Punishment with Kisses
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Punishment with Kisses, by Diane Anderson-Minshall Noir, mystery, murder, scandal, and lesbians rolled up into one. Diane Anderson-Minshall writes whip-smart noir mysteries with strong, sexy women at the helm. Our story: a wealthy family's youngest daughter runs around with all kinds of women and stays out 'til all hours—until she... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at The Bright List
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The Marines of Montford Point - America's First Black Marines Speak Out
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines, by Melton A. McLaurin In their own words, the first African American Marines— the men who trained at Montford Point— tell of their lives as in the segregated military: personal and historical. Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the first black Marine unit... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at The Bright List
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Where's the Common Ground Between the Faithful and Atheist?
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Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious, by Chris Stedman “Who can we be, together? ...The goal should be neither conversion nor the destruction of religion— but rather to make a better world.” —Sarah Sentilles, author of Breaking Up with God: A Love Story If Chris Stedman... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at The Bright List
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Cowgirl Up! — Lily Burana Takes on the Rodeo Rider Romance
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Try, by Lily Burana "My God, it's refreshing to read a novel as good and rank and honest as TRY." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love Lily Burana is a keen observer of real human behavior, and has an insider's understanding of rodeo culture. She's written a Western romance... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at The Bright List
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The Sleeping Sickness Epidemic—Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery, by Molly Caldwell Crosby During the Great Flu epidemic of WWI, there was an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica —or “sleeping sickness”— that left its victims permanently disabled, a plague of catatonic lethargy. Some people were comatose for years-- and it could... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at The Bright List
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The Price of Being Sensitive—The Salt God's Daughter
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The Salt God’s Daughter, by Ilie Ruby The Salt God's Daughter, a teenage girl presents a mystery. Who is this young woman's father? Why did he leave? —And what’s up her deformed foot? There’s a huge consequences-of-bullying theme here, as well as that of close-female bonds. The Salt God's Daughter... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at The Bright List
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How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter—Take That, Misogynists!
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The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter, by Katherine Ellison I’ll admit, I’ve resorted to the excuse “mommy brain” on more than one occasion. (All right, right up to say... five minutes ago.) But Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Ellison asks, “What if raising children is mentally enriching for mothers... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2013 at The Bright List
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