Featuring erotic stories by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, Lars Eighner, David Shields, Cecilia Tan, and Steven Saylor.

This fourth volume of the best-selling series brings together the most outstanding literary erotic writing of the year, including cutting-edge forays into sexual and virtual reality.

Included in this collection:

• "The Letters" by Eric Albert
• "The Perfect Fit" by Katya Andreevna
• "The Trade" by Lars Eighner
• "Girls Who Wear Glasses" by David Sheilds
• "Pearl Diver" by Cecilia Tan
• "A Fish Story" by Bob Zordani
• "The Hit" by Aaron Travis
• "Light" by Bonny Finberg
• "there's more to state troopers than meets the eye" by Estabrook
• "The Portable Girlfriend" by Doug Tierney
• "Progressive Lightning" by Joel Dailey
• Excerpt from Jack the Modernist by Robert Gluck
• "Meow?" by Shar Rednour
• "Hollywood Squared" by Brandon Judell
• "Choke Hold" by Lucy Taylor
• "Temporary Insanity" by Thomas S. Roche
• "Dessert for the Gourmet" by William Borden
• "Morning Love" by Linda Smukler
• "His Little Plan Backfired" by Amelia Copeland
• "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" by Robert Olen Butler

Previously published as Best American Erotica 1996.