
The perennial hipster favorite, Nerve.com, has added its latest oeuvre to its coffee table come sexy-smut collection. “Nerve: The First Ten Years,” is a hardcore and hardcover “best of” anthology comprising of 43 sardonically witty articles and 190 nude skinny girl with bored look on her face photographs dating back to the websites inception in 1997. What’s so great about this book (and make no mistake, I do think its great, and for reasons beyond the neon pink, plastic lollypop-bondage book jacket) is that it bypasses all the whiny artistic blog postings and Emo singles loitering its otherwise intellectually stimulating site, getting right to the good stuff. Specifically, Vicki Hendricks brilliant unreal account of a Siamese twin’s loss of virginity, Jane Ross’s tirade on the metrosexual (was 2004 that long ago?), a controversially infuriating piece arguing for romance between teen girls and old horny men, and of course, close to two hundred photos of the American...
