Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve.com

by Jack Murnighan, Rufus Griscom (Editor)

Over the past three years, Nerve.com has defined a new genre in contemporary literature: short, sexy fiction that excites above and below the neck. Incisive, honest, and gripping, these stories rewrite our understanding of what sexual fiction can be.

Full Frontal Fiction collects the most innovative and literary erotic fiction to appear on the Web pages of Nerve. From established names like Jay McInerney, A. M. Homes, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Gaitskill, and Elizabeth Wurtzel to the best of today's new voices, Full Frontal Fiction contains some of the most provocative writing in America today.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Genres: Fiction, Erotica, Short Stories

304 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Smalltown Hoosier by birth, central-Illinoisan till college, then some semiotics at Brown, an Orwellian stint in Paris, a Ph.D. in Medieval Lit from Duke, and finally New York's Chinatown. And now that i've hauled all my books to my 6th-floor walk-up, i'm staying put.

Reviews

[Guillermo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Erotic fiction...hmm...how to have sex in strange new ways and then exploit them on page?

[Clawfoot · Rating 3 out of 5]

My opinion of the book is likely coloured by what I had expected from it: not being familiar with Nerve.com, we bought the book thinking it was a book of erotica. The stories indeed within deal with sexuality and sex and relationships, but I would certainly NOT call it erotica.

The stories are well-written and deal with adult themes, but they're largely depressing and about completely messed-up people and their messed-up relationships. A good read if that's what you were looking for, but pretty disappointing when what you wanted/expected was lighter fare.

[Paula · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of the few books I've merely skimmed. Too many of the stories were just too bizarre for me to finish, and at one point early on there was a formatting error that got pages from two of the stories mixed up. It's too bad, though, because the good writing (although limited to about two or three stories out of the entire book) was really good.

[Constance Crystal · Rating 3 out of 5]

A surprisingly good collection of short stories which read like a female literary brat pack. Read for Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Alex which if like me you’re a devoted fan of is all you’d expect and want from her writing. RIP. She was such an inspiration to me and I still can’t believe she’s gone. I enjoyed nearly every single one of these stories.

[Kerri · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm giving this book 3.5 stars. Not what I was expecting at all. I thought there was going to be dirty sex scenes at every turn of the page, but they were all just well written short stories. Some when over my head but there were really good memorable ones.

[Patrick · Rating 2 out of 5]

A group of erotic fiction by the website, Nerve. Some of the stories are good others are not really good at all thus the 2 stars.

[Capedoggy · Rating 2 out of 5]

dull.

[Lidia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolutely awful, couldn't finish it.