Below are some of Stella’s favorites, including story collections, novels, and a memoir or two that read like novels, as well as some poetry.
If you are a ripe woman who writes erotica, or if you would like to try it, these books are wonderful sources for prompts. Open a favorite volume, copy a sentence to start you off, and keep writing your own thoughts for ten or twenty minutes.
There are more publications in recent years than in prior times, as erotic writing by older women becomes more prevalent. As a reader and as a creator, you are playing a part in this developing process. Keep it up!
Here you will find books about:
May you enjoy them all!
I have been a fan of Sharon Olds‘ poetry ever since she spoke out about incest in her collection, The Dead and the Living (1983).
These days, Dorothy Freed is in her seventies, and writes about sexuality long after menopause (she has a story in the Ageless Erotica collection reviewed
Heyman is a New York psychiatrist who published this collection of her stories when she was 74. Not surprisingly given her profession, Heyman is a
Yes, this is the same Gail Sheehy whose book Passages was such a hit. Here, Sheehy focuses in on women’s sexuality after midlife, using the same combination
You remember Erica Jong: She who broke new ground with Fear of Flying, a 1973 novel that startled men and women at the time with
The Atlas of Beauty is indeed an atlas, with women from all over the world shown in their environment, the garments they wear, and with
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