Nerve: Literate Smut

About this book

New York magazine called Nerve "the Webs most intelligent forum for erotica." Now from the creators of Nerve.com comes an original collection of sexual fiction and nonfiction from some of todays best writers. Since its online debut in 1997 Nerve has been publishing brazen titillating and intelligent prose and photography. Nerve: Literate Smut highlights some of the webzines most acclaimed stories and essays by writers such as Norman Mailer Sallie Tisdale Rick Moody Thom Jones and Dr. Joycelyn Elders as well as striking photographs by Andres Serrano Richard Kern Sylvia Plachy and others. Nerves founders frame the texts and photos with original and revealing essays on the many sides of sex--from shame and habits to taboos debauchery and of course love. This volume demonstrates why Nerve is more than the latest web phenomenon--its a bold new sexual sensibility and a precocious force in American culture.