Just a quick update on the overwhelming response to our new anthology. And news on upcoming bi (coastal) events. I think they will be packed, so cum early & cum often. Thanks, David Henry Sterry
EVENTS:
Thursday Sept 3: LA Book Launch: BOOK SOUP 7pm 8818 Sunset Blvd
http://www.laweekly.com/events/david-henry-sterry-and-r-j-martin-jr-s-hos-hookers-call-girls-and-rent-boys-professionals-writing-on-life-love-money-and-sex–682734/
Thursday Sept 3: Sex Worker Literati: Happy Ending Lounge 8pm 302 Broome St (NYC)
http://www.hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com/reading-series/
Wednesday Sept 9: In the Flesh: Hustler Store LA 8pm 8920 Sunset Blvd.
REVIEWS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Bentleyt.html?_r=2&8bu&emc=bua1
http://therumpus.net/2009/08/hos-hookers-call-girls-and-rent-boys-professionals-writing-on-life-love-money-and-sex/
http://tigerbeatdown.com/?p=448#more-448
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6667888.html?
http://www.nypress.com/article-20211-the-happy-hook-book.html
NYTBR – 8/23/09





“Graced with insight and empathy—for his own rage, for his family, and for the wealthy female clients whom he serves—Sterry finds a literary rhythm as fluid and alluring as the strut of his ‘nuthugging elephantbells. Combine this with a sense of humor as bright and ridiculous as a ‘blood-engorged wangdangdoodle-hammer, and you have material that is ideal for stage and screen.”

“Compulsively readable, visceral, and very funny. The author, a winningly honest companion, has taken us right into his head, moment-by-moment: rarely has the mentality of sex been so scrupulously observed and reproduced on paper. Granted, he had some amazingly bizarre experiences to draw upon; but as V. S. Pritchett observed, in memoirs you get no pints for living, the art is all that counts-and David Henry Sterry clearly possesses the storyteller’s art.”
“It’s a breezy read, pleasingly free of self-pity. Sterry judges the tone carefully. He’s unflinching and perceptive without being mawkish, and often very funny. And the side of the sex-worker’s story he tells is a rarely heard one.
[A] refreshingly affectionate portrayal of a naïve young man’s first taste of Los Angeles in mid 1970s…Sterry expertly and economically brings the parade of pimps, nuns, debutantes, rapists, and sexual deviants who populate his past to life…he attacks his evocative prose like a grizzled beatnik poet hitting a home run.