This Thursday in NYC: In The FleshFree love, sex and cupcakes and an encore reading by me!

I'm so honored to be part of this month's In The Flesh Reading Series, a free evening of readings on love and sex–plus free mini cupcakes!

The theme is 'Sex on the Beach' and I'm doing an encore performance of a reading I did back in March at Abiola's Kiss and Tell. A story from the journeys that became my doc How I Learned to Speak Turkish (see trailer above), it couldn't be more perfect for the theme of the night's show.

It's about virginity and beaches and sex, and if you want to know more, please come on out and say hi! I think I'm part of the comic relief, far more funny than titillating (but isn't a lot of sex like that too?).

Here are the details:

In The Flesh: Sex on the Beach Night
August 19, 2010, 8:00 pm - 10 pm

Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey or F/V to 2nd, between Forsyth & Eldridge. Look for the hot pink awning that says "XIE HE Health Club."

Admission: Free, 21+
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676

Get ready to get overheated at Summer Sex/Sex on the Beach night at In The Flesh! The summer's hottest fiction, a romance novelist, a documentarian, erotica and more.

Featuring Abigail Ekue (The Darker Side of Lust), Eric, Hilary Thayer Hamann (Anthropology of an American Girl), Yona Zeldis McDonough (Breaking the Bank), Tony O’Neill (Sick City), Michelle Janine Robinson (Color Me Grey), filmmaker Therese Shechter (How To Lose Your Virginity) and Hope Tarr (The Tutor). Hosted by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Orgasmic, Fast Girls, Please, Sir). Mobile Libris will sell readers' books.

4 free waterproof vibrators from EdenFantasys will be given away and 100 free copies of Sexis Magazine will be distributed. Free Baked by Melissa cupcakes, candy and chips will be served. This is the countdown to the final In The Flesh December 16th so don't miss a very special night!