Praise for KINK: STORIES edited by R.O. KWON & GARTH GREENWELL "[Kink is] more about the transformative nature of kink as a practice, and the different modalities - kink as anticipation, as communication, as processing, as a mind-eraser, as an anchor, as a code, as freedom - it can unleash. At times reading Kink felt like having a mirror turned on me. In my reading, I kept thinking: 'What is kink, anyway? Do I participate?' I put down the book, texted friends, revisited memories. Ultimately, this seems to be the collection's point: to prompt a revisitation of the transgressive, a consideration, or insertion, of the self."-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (EDITOR'S CHOICE) "This provocative collection will leave you tied to your chair...[A] groundbreaking collection of short stories that explore desire, love, BDSM, and consent...Co-edited by acclaimed novelists R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, Kink...features stories by Roxane Gay, Alexander Chee, Carmen Maria Machado, and others-that explore desire, love, BDSM, and consent. The book seeks not only to lay bare non-normative physical intimacy, but to change the cultural conversations surrounding it. Yes, there are ropes and riding crops, but the beauty lies in capturing the emotionality as well as the eroticism."-O MAGAZINE "...Dive into this collection of short stories written by several renowned fiction authors. Set in places like therapists' offices, private estates, and a sex theater in early 20th century Paris, the stories explore various points across the sexual spectrum from love and desire to BDSM."-COSMOPOLITAN "Arresting-the characters precise, the language invitingly lush...For all its raunch, the book is very much a study of trust...As the reader's mind tracks back and forth between bodies and definitions, she begins to see those definitions' flimsiness, and to wonder about the unexpressed depths that live in each of us."-THE NEW YORKER "In the introduction to their new collection, editors R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell declare that they want to take kink seriously. The fifteen stories that populate their anthology of literary short fiction certainly do that, investigating the intersection of love, desire and control in pieces that transport readers to therapists' offices, dungeons and a sex theater in 20th-century Paris. These narratives seek to analyze how gender and politics inform pleasure and power, and are written by the very best of the genre-including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay and Carmen Maria Machado."-TIME "[Kink] is less a collection of stories than a journey through the spectra of human sexuality....Kink is a collection worthy of a read not just for its steaminess but also for what it has to say about why people want what they want and the lengths they're willing to go to get it. There's pleasure and pain and fear and euphoria. There's suspension, both of disbelief and bodies. Some readers may be surprised, some may be bewildered, but all will be pleased by what they find between the covers."-LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS "[F]ifteen writers explore power dynamics, self expression, and humanity through bends in desire. The stories...are alternatingly funny, poignant, sexy, anxiety-provoking-like kinks, like life."-VANITY FAIR "There's delight in Kink's sensory abundance...Each [story] is a portrait of the way sex can turn slippages and differentials in human society-between people trying to understand one another through language, between the strata of power hierarchies, between differing gender expressions-into a phenomenon only fiction can really get at. Kwon and Greenwell's Kink is...an invitation to enjoy the sheer inexplicable fact that the body speaks a language we can't understand."-THE NEW REPUBLIC "Provocative, poignant, and sublimely written."-TOWN & COUNTRY "...These stories are in the hands of a master. Covering the wide spectrum of kink, they are filthy and lovely. When I think about the greatest queer writers of our time, names like Alex...