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Kinkis a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.

Kinkis a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark, Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham, and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors.

The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates, therapists offices, underground sex clubs, private estates, and even a Victorian-era sex theater. While there are whips and chains, sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires, as portrayed by some of todays most exciting writers.

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R.O. Kwons nationally bestselling first novel,The Incendiaries, is published by Riverhead, and it is being translated into seven languages. Named a best book of the year by over forty publications,The Incendiarieswas a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for Best First Book andLos Angeles TimesFirst Book Prize.Kwons writing has appeared inThe New York Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review,NPR, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow. Garth Greenwellis the author ofWhat Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize. ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into more than a dozen languages. His second book of fiction,Cleanness, was published in 2020. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, andVICE, and he has written criticism forThe New Yorker, the London Review of Books,and The New York Times Book Review,among others. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in Iowa City.