Animal Rights & Pornography, by J. Eric Miller

Stark, haunting, and immaculately brief, J. Eric Miller's groundbreaking first collection resonates with minimalis restraint and lush, sensual depravity. From a tale of incest as bland and as grand as a creation myth to a character's obsession with a nearly alive beaver coat and the woman naked underneath, Animal Rights & Pornography is both breathtakingly brutal and disarmingly tender. Its release heralds a brilliant and uncompromising new voice on the disturbing and uniquely American territory between violence and food, sex and death.