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Rose & Olive
Houston neighbors pull back the curtains and expose each other’s lives.
Scanner
Your daily cup of WTF?
Date Machine
Putting your baggage to good use.
The Modern Materialist
Almost everything you want.
Autumn Sonnichsen
A fashionable L.A. photo editor exploring all manner of hyper-sexual girls down south.
ScreenGrab
The Hooksexup Film Blog
Chase
The creator of Supercult.com poses his pretty posse.
The Remote Island
Hooksexup's TV blog.
61 Frames Per Second
Smarter gaming.
ScreenGrab
The Hooksexup Film Blog
Slice
Each month a new artist; each image a new angle. This month: American Suburb X.
Paper Airplane Crush
A San Francisco photographer on the eternal search for the girls of summer.
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Beth B's career has spanned twenty years of crossing artistic disciplines, working in sculpture, photography, theater, film and video. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Hayward Gallery, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Whitney Museum, the New York Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival, among others. Her upcoming productions include: Tsotsi, a feature film; Crossing the Line, a television program with Court TV; The Story of Philomela, a theater production for the Brooklyn Academy of MusicÕs Next Wave Festival 2002; A Girl With A Gun, a feature film written by Wendy Riss; and a feature film adaptation of the book, Seven Tattoos written by Peter Trachtenberg. |
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Laurent Badessi was born in France and currently resides in New York. His photographs appear regularly in Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Elle and Black + White, and he has published a book, Skin. |
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Will Christopher Baer lives in California. His short stories have appeared in Bomb and Damaged Goods. He has written two novels, Kiss Me Judas and Penny Dreadful. |
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Michael Bahler's fiction has been published in various small, random places. He is also a lawyer. |
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Mary Jo Bang is the author of three collections, Louise In Love, Apology for Want and The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of the Swans. |
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Carolyn Banks' first novel, Mr. Right, has been described as "a smart-ass parafeminist psycho-erotic thriller." She is also the author of Tart Tales: Elegant Erotic Stories, a collection of her own erotica, and The Turtle's Voice, which she considers her best novel. Other books include The Darkroom, Patchwork, and The Girls on the Row, as well as a five-book comic paperback mystery series set in the equestrian world. She is currently at work on an erotic thriller entitled His. |
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Keith Banner has been published in Christopher Street, James White Review, and The Minnesota Review. He has stories in Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium and The Kenyon Review. His first novel, titled The Life I Lead, was released in the Spring of 1999. |
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After securing a degree in photography from New York's School of Visual Arts, Marc Baptiste headed straight to Paris, where he shot fashion collections for Annie Flanders' early-'80s incarnation of Details. Since then, he's become transcontinental, shooting for ad campaigns and magazines such as Vanity Fair and German Vogue. |
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Ondrea Barbe has had her photographs published in Time Out NY, Photo District News and Picture. She has worked commercially for Polygram in France and New York, as well as for Elite, Ford, Hourra and Marilyn Gauthier modeling agencies. |
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John Perry Barlow is a Wyoming-based rancher, a lyricist who composed for the Grateful Dead, a contributing editor at Wired, a member of the WELL board of directors and a cyberrights activist who penned the Declaration of Cyber Independence. He is also a nomad and the father (tour guide) of three girls. He was born in 1947. |
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A writer living in Michigan, David Barringer has written for Playboy, Details, Mademoiselle, and The American Prospect. His fiction has appeared and will be appearing in Wisconsin Review, Epoch, In Posse Review, Cross Connect, 3AM Magazine, Sweet Fancy Moses, Tatlin's Tower, and many others. He maintains a web site at www.davidbarringer.com. |
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At twenty-five, Chris Barzak has already published work in a host of literary science fiction magazines, including Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The Penguin Review and Icon. He is a graduate of the legendary Clarion SF writing workshop, whose alumni include Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Bruce Sterling and Kim Stanley Robinson. |
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Gordon Bass is a former Men's Journal senior editor who now lives in upstate New York. He has most recently written for GQ, Glamour, and Inc. He can't think of anyone famous he's kissed except maybe an actress who once played Barney. |
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Jennifer Baumgardner is the co-author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism, as well as the forthcoming Look Both Ways: Sex, Power and Feminism. She writes frequently for The Nation, Glamour, and many other magazines, is a columnist for Alternet, and is the producer of the documentary Speak Out: I Had an Abortion. She is at work on a photo book about women who have had abortions. |
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A. Bartholomew's articles regularly appear in a number of major magazines. One such article inspired a 1996 TV movie about anorexic teenagers; another formed the basis of a segment on TV's America's Most Wanted. She is currently editing a collection of stories by top women writers. |
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Louis Bayard is the author of the novels Fool's Errand and Endangered Species. His reviews, articles and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lambda Book Report, Ms., The Washington, The New York Blade News, Hero and Genre. |
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Mark Beard's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Fine Art, the Utah Museum of Art, Yale University, Harvard University, the New York Public Library and the Graphische Sammlung, Munich. He continues to discover paintings created by his late alter ego, Bruce Sargeant (1848 - 1938), who worked in the 1920s and '30s. |
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Nicky Beer is a writer and occasional radio DJ who lives in Houston. Her work has appeared in Columbia, Cider Press Review and . She has recently taught her dog to catch a Frisbee. |
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Amanda Beesley is a former columnist for Self magazine and the author of Something New: Reflections on the Beginning of a Marriage, as well as the one-act play Stolen Child. She teaches writing at SUNY Purchase, and teaches everything else to fellow contributor Nicholas Weinstock. |
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Andy Behrman, a graduate of Wesleyan University, is a former fashion publicist, go-go boy, escort, hustler and art dealer. Convicted in 1993 of conspiracy to defraud for counterfeiting the works of painter Mark Kostabi, Behrman served five months in jail and five months' house arrest. In 1995, Andy Behrman received electroshock therapy; he currently lives mania-free on New York's Upper West Side and has published a number of articles in theNew York Times. Electroboy is his first book. |
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Giuliano Bekor is a photographer and filmmaker who is internationally
renowned for his striking fashion imagery and portraiture. As a contemporary
image-maker, Giuliano is innovative and Prolific. His rich and dramatic
photos have made him well recognized for portraying characters and their
atmosphere in an enduring narrative. His inventive celebrity portraiture and
editorial work appears in Vanity Fair, Harpers Bazaar, Rolling Stones, Elle,
Glamour, Time, and People Magazine.
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Erin Belieu's first book of poetry, Infanta, was a selection of the National Poetry Series. She has more recently published One Above and One Below, and has edited the new anthology The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women. While she is now a hoary-bearded professor of English and Creative Writing at Kenyon College, she has amused herself through various forms of employment, including staff member for a national presidential campaign and award-winning phone sex operator. |
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Eleanor Bell works as an escort in New York, is currently writing a collection of short stories and dreams of becoming a madam. |
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Josh Bell was the Paul Engle Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Iowa, 2000-01, and is currently an instructor at the University of Alabama. He has published poetry in Slope, Boston Review, Perihelion, Poetry Daily and Exquisite Corpse. |
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Martine Bellen is the author of the poetry collections Places People Dare Not Enter and Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems, which won the National Poetry Series. Her forthcoming collection The Vulnerability of Order will be published this year. She is an editor at Carroll & Graf Publishers and a senior editor for the literary journal Conjunctions. |
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Aimee Bender is the author of the short-story collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own. Her stories have appeared in Granta, GQ, Harper's Magazine, Paris Review, and several other publications. She lives in Los Angeles. |
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Karen E. Bender's fiction has appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Granta, Story, The Iowa Review and The Kenyon Review, and has been reprinted in anthologies such as Best American Short Stories 1997 and Pushcart Prize XVIII. Her story, "Eternal Love," was chosen as a Selected Short and read by Joanne Woodward. Her first novel, Like Normal People, was published in April 2000. |
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Bruce Benderson is the author of two books of fiction about the street life of old Times Square as well as the book-length essay Toward the New Degeneracy (Edgewise) and a monograph entitled James Bidgood (Taschen) on the creator of the film Pink Narcissus. His novels, essays and journalism are widely published here and in France. He's currently finishing a long erotic memoir about an experence in Romania, a project that began with an assignment from hooksexup.com. |
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Alva Bernadine was born in Grenada, West Indies, and was brought to London at the age of six. He is self-trained and has photographed for Vogue, GQ, Elle and others. Winner of the Vogue/Sotheby's Cecil Beaton Award, he was also twice nominated English "Erotic Photographer of the Year." |
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David Berreby is the pseudonym of the beloved and prolific author, Anonymous. His first work, the mixed-media performance "Wow! An Elk!" won the coveted Hunk of Raw Meat in 25,000 B.C., and the next year another piece, "Whoa, Women!" made a triumphal tour of all European and Asian galleries not occupied by large bears. Though he had his doubts about the invention of writing (too much hype, and those snotty clay-tablet millionaires), he eventually became the first non-existent cultural construct to embrace the new medium. Among his popular works are The Song of Roland, The Mahabharata and the first edition of Primary Colors. |
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Margot Berwin is the author of Irresistible, a work of creative nonfiction. She is currently working on an instructional novel called How to Avoid Disaster. She lives in Manhattan. |
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Ilise Benun teaches creative writing to children in Queens, Brooklyn, Harlem and Hoboken, New Jersey, through the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She is the recipient of a Prose Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and she currently studies fiction at writerstudio.com. Benun is also the author of marketing guides for the "creatively self-employed," including 133 Tips to Promote Yourself & Your Business. |
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Mark Bibbins lives in New York City and teaches at The New School. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review and The Yale Review, as well as in Take Three: 3 (Graywolf/AGNI) and the anthologies Word of Mouth (Talisman House) and The World in Us (St. MartinÕs). Graywolf Press will publish his first book, Sky Lounge, in 2003. |
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Andreas H. Bitesnich was born in Vienna, Austria (the city he still calls home) in 1964. At twenty-five, he met a photographer's assistant and decided overnight to become a photographer. The very next day, Bitesnich bought a camera and started shooting intensively. His ensuing success allowed him to give up his day job and dedicate himself entirely to his art. |
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A former professional figure skater, Roy Blakey currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he works as a commercial photographer and shares a studio space with his niece, photographer Keri Pickett. His first book of photographs, HE, was a landmark collection of male nudes which he self-published in 1972. |
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Joseph Bleu has worked as a fashion designer for eighteen years and as a photographer for two years. He lives in Manhattan. |
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Amy Bloom is a writer and psychotherapist. Her books include the short story collections A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You and Come to Me, and the novel Love Invents Us. Her stories have also appeared in The New Yorker, Antaeus, Story and the 1991 and 1992 Best American Short Stories. |
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Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and a professor of science journalism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women, a 1997 New York Times Notable Book, and The Monkey Wars. She is also co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers and has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Sacramento Bee, Discover, Psychology Today, Health and American Scientist. She is currently working on a book about the controversial science, begun by the late psychologist Harry F. Harlow, on mother-child relationships. |
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John Blum is the pseudonym of a writer living in New York. |
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Michael Blumenthal, poet, novelist, essayist and translator, is the author of six books of poems, most recently The Wages of Goodness. His novels include Weinstock Among the Dying and Dusty Angel. His anthology, To Woo & To Wed: Poets on Love and Marriage, was published in 1992. A former Guggenheim Fellow and Senior Fulbright Lecturer, he has been awarded the I.B. Lavan Prize from the Academy of American Poets. |
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Paula Bomer lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two sons. She contributes regularly to Feed, Word, GirlsOn and JVibe. |
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Greg Bottoms' essays and fiction have recently appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, Prism International and Santa Monica Review. He is the book editor of Gadfly, a new arts and culture monthly he describes as "the intellectual's Entertainment Weekly." Bottoms and his wife live on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. |
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Christopher Boucher is a graduate student in the M.F.A. program at Syracuse University. He's working on a collection of stories. |
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John Bowe is a writer and filmmaker living in New York. He is the cowriter of the film Basquiat and the book Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. |
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Catherine Bowman was born in El Paso, Texas. She is the author of two collections, 1-800-HOT-RIBS and Rock Farm. She teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington. |
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Debra Boxer lives in New Jersey but dreams about living just about anywhere else. Her interest in erotica began in high school when she wrote sex stories during Spanish class to stay awake. At Rutgers University she wrote her senior thesis on pornography. For four years she's been reviewing books for Publishers Weekly, and somehow gets all the erotica collections. She hopes to publish her first novel and have sex by the time she's thirty. |
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Susan Bordo is Professor of English and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities Department at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of many widely cited articles and books, including Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. and The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private. She lectures nationally on contemporary culture, including topics such as eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, beauty and evolutionary theory, racism and the body, masculinity and the male body, sexual harassment and the impact of contemporary media. |
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Jenny Boully was born in Thailand, reared in Texas, and now lives in Brooklyn. Her book The Body is available from Slope Editions. Her work has been included in The Best American Poetry 2002, The Next American Essay, and Great American Prose Poems. |
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Blanche McCrary Boyd's latest novel, Terminal Velocity, was published in June 1999. Her previous books include a novel called The Revolution of Little Girls and a collection of essays called The Redneck Way of Knowledge. She is Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. For more information, see her website (https://oak.conncoll.edu/bboyd). |
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Arthur Bradford's first book, Dogwalker, was published by Knopf in 2001, and Vintage paperback in 2002. He is also the director of "How's Your News?", a series of documentary films featuring news reporters with mental disabilities which have appeared on HBO/Cinemax, PBS, and Trio (howsyournews.com). |
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Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, and The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel. She lives in Riverside, California, with her husband and two kids. |
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Richard Brautigan was involved in the Beat movement in San Francisco in the late 1950s. He wrote several novels and books of poetry, most famously, Trout Fishing in America, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, In Watermelon Sugar and The Abortion: A Historical Romance. He died in 1984. |
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Susannah Breslin is the author of You're a Bad Man, Aren't You?, a short story collection from Future Tense Books. Currently, she is at work on a semi-autobiographical novel, If Only These Hands Could Talk, based on her experiences in Porn Valley. Her writings, photographs, and comics have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Details, Salon, The LA Weekly, and Variety, among many other publications. She is also a reporter on Playboy TV's "Sexcetera." |
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Susie Bright is a writer and editor of erotic works. In addition to having edited Herotica I, II, and III, the women's erotic fiction series, along with The Best American Erotica 1993, '94, '95, '96, '97, 2000 and 2001, she is the author of the national bestseller The Sexual State of the Union. She has also published Susie Bright's Sexwise, Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex Reader, Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World and Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image. She writes a column every other Friday for Salon magazine, as well as other stories for them, like her feminist obit for Princess Di and her nudist camp philosophies. |
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Poppy Z. Brite has worked as an artist's model, a mouse caretaker, a stripper and (since 1991) a full-time writer. She has published three novels, Lost Souls, Drawing Blood and Exquisite Corpse, as well as a short story collection, Wormwood. She is the editor of the anthologies Love In Vein I and II. Her most recent project is the biography Courtney Love: The Real Story, which was published in October 1997. |
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Merlin Bronques (a.k.a Bronxxx) lives in New York and takes pictures of strangers he meets everyday. He is the self-described 'Queen of Urban Pin-Ups'. His websites are https://www.namlive.com and https://www.lastnightsparty.com |
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Carellin Brooks is the co-editor of Carnal Nation: Brand New Sex Fictions and editor of Bad Jobs: My Last Shift at Albert Wong's Pagoda and Other Ugly Tales of the Workplace. Her work has appeared in Girlfriends, Hers 3 and Best Lesbian Erotica 1998, among others. |
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Carellin Brooks is the co-editor of Carnal Nation: Brand New Sex Fictions and editor of Bad Jobs: My Last Shift at Albert Wong's Pagoda and Other Ugly Tales of the Workplace. Her work has appeared in Girlfriends, Hers 3 and Best Lesbian Erotica 1998, among others. |
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Larry Brown is the author of the story collection Big Bad Love, which was recently adapted into a film starring Debra Winger and Arliss Howard. He has written four novels (Dirty Work, Joe, Father and Son and Billy Ray's Farm) and a memoir (On Fire). He's won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award twice and has taught writing at several universities (most recently as a guest of Rick Bass at the University of Montana). |
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Andrew Brucker has worked as a photographer for magazines like Interview, Details, Playboy and Rolling Stone. For five years he has concentrated exclusively on his artwork and his portraits of actors and musicians. He is a regular contributor to Visionaire. |
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Steven Brykman is finally happy with his life. A medical school flunkout, Steve received his M.F.A. from UMass, Amherst, where he published "ZuNews," a humor paper, and is currently Managing Editor at National Lampoon. Steven has written for Playboy and is a jokewriter for comedian Kevin Meaney. His master's thesis, "The Low E," was awarded the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize, though his screenplay, "Joel's Bar Mitzvah," was soundly rejected by Don Rickles. |
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Dexter Buell is a Brooklyn-based photographer who received an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art in 1989. He received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 1997 and a Fellowship in Video Art from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1998. Most recently, he was a fellow at the Macdowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 2000. |
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Lily Burana is the author of Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America (Miramax Books) |
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Austin Bunn has worked as a game design for reality television, boat carpenter, and written for The New York Times Magazine. For the record, he is no longer working on a book about intergenerational sex — thank god — nor does he have anything to do with this story. |
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Robert Olen Butler is the author of seven novels. His most recent novel, The Deep Green Sea, was published in January, 1999, and was previewed in Hooksexup. Butler's short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is also the winner of the 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction. He teaches creative writing at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. |
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Deborah Byrne has always wanted to be a rock star; instead she plays the air guitar and will settle for being a polka queen. Once, while in France, she had a terrible experience with a bidet and has been weary of the fixture ever since. Her poems have been published internationally in journals including Small Island Review, Paris/Atlantic, Poetry Ireland and Mandrake. Closer to home, she has been published in The Chattahootchi Review, Cimarron Review and Lungfull. Her awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize and the Edgar Allan Poe Award. |
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