A feminist, modern-day retelling of the biblical tale of Mary of Egypt and a sexually-charged portrait of an introverted Jewish girl in a tormented relationship with a man who believes he can save prostitutes by marrying them.

“These poems map the tangled terrain . . . of the American family—its complex relationships, its twisted fears, its desperate dreams. They’re short and concise, but they can be sad, disturbing, and funny all at once: the emotional debris of an entire dysfunctional life packed into each one.”

One girl cruises the litter-strewn docks of Long Beach disguised as a fag while another begs to feel her lover's butter-slick cock slip inside her ass. Feeling clumsily sexy in her date's presence, like "some kind of frankenwhore," another woman is tied to a child's desk and made to read from Revelations while allowing torn bits of toast to be placed on her tongue.

An exhaustive and hilarious compendium of curses and expletives, rendered in at least 69 different languages.

A literary anthology on adultery featuring some of the country's hottest contemporary writers.

"An eye-opening, occasionally astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection from those who really have lived on the edge in a parallel universe."

Live Nude Elf is a funny, witty, irreverent, brave, and sometimes tragic portrait of The Reverend Jen Miller, The Patron Saint of the Uncool, and the challenges embedded in devoting one's personal and professional life to art.

"...[A] pornographic Manhattan Transfer for the 21st century. Beneath the erotic surface, beside the side-splitting humor, there lurks a sadness the depth of which is almost hard to believe."

New, experimental, erotic, fearless fiction from William T. Vollman, Robert Coover, Jasmine Sailing and 17 others!