True Tales of Lust and Love

Anna David

Catapult, Jan 7, 2014 - Literary Collections - 272 pages

Anna David’s True Tales of Lust and Love began as a one-time-only reading and storytelling show in January of 2012, a venue for writers and comedians to share and laugh at their dating disaster stories. But after selling out the venue and attracting immediate press and buzz—with articles in The LA Weekly, LA Times, Time Out, Flavorpill, and LAist, among others—David agreed to produce the show every month. It has continued not only to sell out but also to attract a growing list of authors, comedians, and Hollywood writers. As Time Out declared, “This is the place to go to see strong female performers.”

With the show now booked indefinitely, and with audio recordings of each performance available on iTunes, Anna has collected the most popular and entertaining pieces into the first ever True Tales of Lust and Love anthology. The book includes essays organized into three sections—Casual Sex, Dating, and Out of the Ordinary—which collectively offer up funny, raucous, insightful, and surprisingly touching confessions about the quest for lust and love. Everyone has dating disaster stories, everyone needs to share and laugh at them, and this anthology will give readers the opportunity to do just that, with contributions from the funniest writers and comedians around, pulled from the world of books, TV, and film. True Tales of Lust and Love is the perfect complement for a funny or cynical Valentine’s Day—and beyond.

Contents

• My Sex Playlist: 11
• DeepFried Southern: 31
• The Water Snake: 51
• Rock Bottom: 77
• The Older: 91
• The Test: 113
• Sleeping with the Enemy: 129
• Fresh Step: 143
• The Tantra: 153
• Summer Camp: 173
• Looking for My Danny Zuko: 187
• Dr Carlisle: 209
• My Very Own Stripper: 225
• Acknowledgments: 247

About the author

Anna David is the New York Times-bestselling author of the novels Party Girl, Bought, the non-fiction books Reality Matters, Falling for Me and By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There, and the Kindle Singles Animal Attraction and They Like Me, They Really Like Me. She has written first-person sex, dating, and relationship pieces for The New York Times, The LA Times, Playboy, and many others. She appears regularly on The Today Show, CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, The CBS Morning Show, Fox’s Hannity and Red Eye, and HLN’s Dr. Drew and was the sex and dating expert on G4’s Attack of the Show for three years.

Bibliographic information

• Title: True Tales of Lust and Love
• Editor: Anna David
• Publisher: Catapult, 2014
• ISBN: 159376538X, 9781593765385
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Literary Collections / Essays