Coming & Crying is a collection of true stories about sex. I co-edited it with Meaghan O'Connell. It was published in 2010 by Glass Houses, our media label. (You can read about why we made the book in our introduction.)

This is a book about sex
"they needed to print copies of their sex anthology and to pay its writers" - New York Post
"being young and hot doesn’t hurt" - New York Magazine

We raised funds to publish Coming & Crying by making a pitch on Kickstarter. We thought we'd need about $3000 to make this book. We raised over $17,000, which became the seed money for Glass Houses. (More on that story in our interview on the Kickstarter podcast.)

The first edition of Coming & Crying was available online and at McNally Jackson, where it made their top 100 sellers of 2010. It is currently sold out, with a second edition due in 2011.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Alex Hoyt, I HIT HER

Meaghan O'Connell, NOW YOU KNOW.

Matthew Gallaway, HEY, MR. TAMBOURINE MAN

Tess Lynch, SECONDHAND NEWS

Sarah Dopp, THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

Peter Raffel, THE FEELING

Maria Diaz, A WALKING CULINARY CEMETERY

Tyler Coates, NEVER HAVE I EVER

Jonathan Ames, SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CRAPPER

Charlotte Shane, JULIAN

Erica Moore, LIBERTAD

Halle Kiefer, FROM MILWAUKEE WITH LOVE

Matthew Lawrence, SEX TAPE THING

Gina de Vries, BAMBINO

Stephen Elliott, WORK

Arielle Brousse, I'LL BE THE ONE TO BREAK MY HEART

William Ball, THE DEATH OF J.G. BALLARD

Audacia Ray, THE JOHNS

Douglas Wolk, ANSWER

Diana Vilibert, THE APARTMENT

Danny Vitolo, PARTS OF A WHOLE

K. Bridgeman, ABSOLUTION

Tao Lin, "AUDREY" FROM "SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL"

Melissa Gira Grant, THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN DISCARDED

Coming & Crying was designed by Jez Burrows. Cover photograph by Nikola Tamindzic. Printed in Iceland by Oddi.