Sexual Pensées

Bruce Jay Friedman has been described as a “comic genius” (P. J. O’Rourke) “an American original” (Kirkus) and as having “a voice that is equidistant from those of Wilde, Salinger, and Woody Allen” (Publishers Weekly).
In Sexual Pensées, he casts a baleful and knowing eye on the “sexual dance”: the way men and women think and feel about sex, how they behave – nobly and disreputably – in and out of bed. The book reveals the deepest feelings of a young woman in Manhattan, a young man, a Hollywood starlet, a film producer – and icons ranging from Flaubert to Mario Puzo. A blend of poetry, haiku, and erotic memoir, it is a book about sex unlike any other, and will appeal to men and women who look upon sex not just as a solemn enterprise, but also as sheer and often outrageous fun.

Bruce Jay Friedman has published eight novels, four story collections, and three works of nonfiction, as well as writing a half dozen plays and receiving several screenwriting credits, including Stir Crazy (1980), Doctor Detroit (1982), and Splash (1984), which won an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His work The Lonely Guy’s Book of Life (1982) provided the basis for Steve Martin’s film The Lonely Guy.

André Barbe, a Parisian artist, has been widely published in France in L’Express, Le Monde, Investir, Le Figaro, L’Echo des Savanes, Magazine Littéraire as well as internationally in Die Welt, Die Zeit, and L’Anamorfico. He has published sixteen books and often animates for film and television. He has mounted one-man exhibitions in Glasgow and at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Musée de l’Erotisme à Paris et à Berlin, and the Museo d’Arte Erotica à Venise.