Smut Vol. 1

Smut #1

by Nerve.com

Finally, erotica you'll still respect in the morning. The first in a series of annual anthologies, Smut presents 22 piecesof Nerve.com's most talked-about fiction. More fearless, forthright, and provocative than typical "erotica" and less blockheadedly masculine than your standard "pornography," Smut collects clich-shattering stories from some of today's most talented writers. In the hands of celebrated authors such as Robert Olen Butler, Aimee Bender, A. M. Holmes, Jay McInerney, and Alice Sebold, seductive entanglements become not only salaciously steamy, but finely wrought. It's literature of the highest order: intelligent, undeniably hot, and in a package to die for. Really, what more could a person ask for in bed?

Genres: Erotica, Romance, Fiction

208 pages, Hardcover

First published December 20, 2007

Reviews

[Douglas Lord · Rating 5 out of 5]

Smut has good erotica about couplings of all kinds. You’ve got your boy on girl, your girl on boy, your girl on girl, and so on. There’s weirdness of all kinds, but nothing truly awful. One very affirming one includes a dude winding up “in no small way, the happiest man on earth” (40) after lovin’ up the missus, and Will Heinrich’s trippy, outrageous Stalin’s Mustache must be read to be believed.

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[Jaslo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Obviously a fast read --as the title suggests. Some were smuttier than others. (Some were gorgeous and some shit.) Intersting how these stories which claim to focus on smut actually seem far more concerned with the less physical world. There's a lot of dreaminiess, yearning, magical thinking etc-- I am now inspired to read Anais Nin.

[Genevieve · Rating 1 out of 5]

A collection of pretty poor erotica. Most of it was scary and weird, not the romance novel type stuff that I like to read.

[Andrea]

TO-READ FOR SPRING BREAK.

[Amy]

Very lame stories.