Nerve Literate Smut Author:Genevieve Field & Rufus Griscom Since its online debut in 1997, Nerve has been publishing brazen, titillating, and intelligent prose and photography. Nerve: Literate Smut highlights some of the webzine's most acclamied 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 S... more »errano, Richard Kern, Sylvia Plachy, and others. Nerve's 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 - it's a bold new sexual sensibility and a precocious force in American culture.« less