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Alison Tyler (born ca 1969 ) is the pseudonym of an American author, editor and publisher of erotica, living in Northern California. She has authored over 20 explicit novels, hundreds of short stories and has edited more than 60 erotic anthologies. She runs her own publishing company, Pretty Things Press (“Pretty on the outside, dirty […]

David Meltzer (February 17, 1937 – December 31, 2016) was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as “one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians”.[1] Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology, The New American Poetry […]

Pierre Klossowski (/kləˈsɒfski/; French: [klɔˈsɔfski]; August 9, 1905, Paris – August 12, 2001, Paris) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus. Born in Paris, Pierre Klossowski was the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, […]

Una Chi (born Bruna Bianchi, Milan, 1942) is an Italian writer and translator. A strong erotic identity is manifest in her works and she is distinguished, among other characteristics, by her scholarly and coldly analytical prose and the cruelty of her stories.[1] Born in Milan in 1942, Bruna Bianchi now teaches German literature at the […]

Bernard Noël (born 19 November 1930) is a French writer and poet. He received the Grand Prix national de la poésie (National Grand Prize of Poetry) in 1992 and the Prix Robert Ganzo (Robert Ganzo Prize) in 2010.[1] Noël published his first book of poetry, Les Yeux Chimeres, in 1955.[2] This was followed by the […]