Fetish Author:John Yau (Editor) Some of the best and brightest writing talents are set loose to explore the dark side of wishful thinking, in this anthology which examines some of the more extreme variations of fetishism. — 42 stories by the likes of Charles Bukowski, Gordon Lish, Jonathan Lethem, Jessica Hagedorn, Rikki Ducornet and Guy Davenport. In Bukowski's "Love for $17.5... more »0," a man gets up close and personal with a mannequin, while Laurie Weeks's "Swallow" documents a sister's desire for a brother enamored of her wasting disease.
Yet a fetish, almost by definition, is idiosyncratic. Just because someone might enjoy watching another person undress does not mean he or she will enjoy reading about one writer's Joycean fecal indulgences in "Metempsychosis," by Garrett Caples. The same holds true about a rock groupie who describes the various performers' genitalia in Janice Eidus's "Snow White and the Seven Dicks."« less