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?