EROTICA | "ANAIS NINCOLLECTOR’S ITEM “Anais Nin’s famous erotica (only brief excerpts of which appeared in Diary III), written in the early 1940s for a private collector, have now be- come public under the suggestive title of Delta of Venus. “What is the impact of these erotica today? Are the stories obscene? Do they divorce sex from feeling? Begun, as Nin writes in Diary ITI, ‘tongue- in-cheek,’ the stories that Nin then thought were ‘exaggerated’ and ‘caricaturing sexuality’ can be read as original contributions to a slowly emerging American tradition of literary erotic writing. They are, furthermore, the first American stories by a woman to celebrate sexuality with complete and open abandonment.” —Harriet Zinnes The New York Times Book ReviewBantam Windstone Books Ask your bookseller for the books you have missed ANTAEUS ANTHOLOGY by Danie! Halpern BACK IN THE WORLD by Tobias Wolff THE BARRACKS THIEF AND SELECTED STORIES by Tobias Wolff : THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath A BIRD IN THE HOUSE by Margaret Laurence BODILY HARM by Margaret Atwood THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER by William Styron DANCING GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES by Margaret Atwood DELTA OF VENUS Erotica by Anais Nin DISTURBANCES IN THE FIELD by Lynne Sharon Schwartz THE DIVINERS by Margaret Laurence THE EDITORS’ CHOICE: NEW AMERICAN STORIES Vols. I, II & II, George E. Murphy, Jr. Editor THE FIRE DWELLERS by Margaret Laurence THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK by Doris Lessing GOODBYE, COLUMBUS by Philip Roth HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson HUNGER OF MEMORY by Richard Rodriguez A JEST OF GOD by Margaret Laurence JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN by Dalton Trumbo LITTLE BIRDS by Anais Nin LOVE MEDICINE by Louise Erdrich A MEASURE OF TIME by Rosa Guy ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn THE RIVER WHY by David James Duncan THE SNOW LEOPARD by Peter Matthiessen SOLDIERS & CIVILIANS/ AMERICANS AT WAR AND HOME Edited by Tom Jenks SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE by Anais Nin THE STONE ANGEL by Margaret Laurence AN UNKNOWN WOMAN by Alice Koller V. by Thomas Pynchon